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- 0:01Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian Unclaire Harvey with the
- 0:04Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Transport billionaire Arthur Scenarios has resigned from
- 0:10Speaker 1: his positions as managing director and chief executive of his
- 0:14Speaker 1: family owned company ACFs Port Logistics. The company, which is
- 0:19Speaker 1: in administration, is attempting to trade its way out of
- 0:22Speaker 1: financial difficulties. Zanios is an old boy of Australia's most
- 0:26Speaker 1: expensive school, Scott's College, and he weighed into a WhatsApp
- 0:30Speaker 1: chat on the alleged sexual assault of a fourteen year
- 0:33Speaker 1: old girl by three Scots boys aged thirteen and fourteen.
- 0:37Speaker 1: The boys have been charged with aggravated sexual assault. Zanarios
- 0:42Speaker 1: made comments in the WhatsApp chat that suggested he had
- 0:45Speaker 1: knowledge of what had happened between the children. Now he's
- 0:49Speaker 1: quit his job, saying he deeply regretted what he said
- 0:52Speaker 1: and hoped his resignation would ensure his behavior didn't affect
- 0:56Speaker 1: acfs's day to day operations. New details have emerged about
- 1:01Speaker 1: an alleged sexual assault involving Sydney, Swan's AFL players. Reports
- 1:06Speaker 1: have emerged that at least two women were invited to
- 1:09Speaker 1: join some members of the team at the Pullman Hotel
- 1:12Speaker 1: in East Melbourne. Following a dinner and drinks attended by
- 1:16Speaker 1: several players on Sunday night, one of the women claimed
- 1:20Speaker 1: her personal boundaries were breached, after which a commotion erupted.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Witnesses reportedly heard one of the women alleging she had
- 1:28Speaker 1: been quote inappropriately touched, in a confrontation with club and
- 1:31Speaker 1: hotel staff in the Pullman's lobby. Victoria Police's Sex Crimes
- 1:36Speaker 1: Squad is investigating the alleged incident. No one has been
- 1:40Speaker 1: charged and nothing has been proven. That story's moving fast
- 1:47Speaker 1: and you can follow the latest at the Australian dot
- 1:49Speaker 1: com dot au plus. Come back to the front first
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- 2:00Speaker 1: Wednesday morning,