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- 0:01Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm christinami it with
- 0:05Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. The ex girlfriend of Maverick New
- 0:09Speaker 1: South Wales politician Mark Latham has refuted claims she received
- 0:13Speaker 1: insider trading tips from billionaire tech founder Richard White. Natalie
- 0:18Speaker 1: Matthews was in an on again, off again relationship with
- 0:21Speaker 1: former Labour leader Mark Latham for about two years up
- 0:25Speaker 1: to mid twenty twenty five. Latham made various claims about
- 0:28Speaker 1: his ex in the New South Wales Upper House in November,
- 0:31Speaker 1: including that she was paid almost one hundred and fifty
- 0:34Speaker 1: thousand dollars by White and that she received legal notices
- 0:37Speaker 1: from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Natalie Matthews denied
- 0:42Speaker 1: Latham's claims in a citizen's reply submitted to but not
- 0:45Speaker 1: tabled in the New South Wales Parliament. Latham's comments were
- 0:48Speaker 1: in response to an application lodged by Matthews earlier in
- 0:51Speaker 1: twenty twenty five for an apprehended violence order. She alleged
- 0:56Speaker 1: in that application Latham had committed domestic abuse and subjected
- 1:00Speaker 1: her to degrading sexual acts. Latham denied the allegations Matthews
- 1:05Speaker 1: dropped the Avio application in October. She was separately charged
- 1:09Speaker 1: with revenge porn offenses that same month and pleaded not guilty.
- 1:15Speaker 1: You've heard about the White House ballroom Donald Trump wants
- 1:18Speaker 1: to build. Now. The President wants a helipad at the
- 1:21Speaker 1: White House to protect the grass. Marine One, the presidential helicopter,
- 1:26Speaker 1: traditionally lands on the south lawn, but the Marine Corps
- 1:29Speaker 1: old fashioned seeking helicopters are being replaced by new Patriot choppers,
- 1:34Speaker 1: which are much heavier and more powerful and could burn
- 1:37Speaker 1: the grass with their exhaust. Trump has also paved over
- 1:41Speaker 1: the White House Rose Gardens lawn and demolished the East wing,
- 1:45Speaker 1: as well as redesigning the Oval Office in his signature
- 1:48Speaker 1: gilded style. His new four hundred million dollar ballroom is
- 1:52Speaker 1: caught up in a legal battle with the Senate knocking
- 1:55Speaker 1: back a plan to have taxpayers fund extra security provisions,
- 1:59Speaker 1: even though Trump's the bareroom will be funded by private donors.
- 2:03Speaker 1: A preservation trust has also launched a legal bid to
- 2:06Speaker 1: stop the whole redevelopment. Check out those stories live right
- 2:11Speaker 1: now at the Australian dot com dot au and come
- 2:13Speaker 1: back to the front. First thing in the morning for
- 2:15Speaker 1: our look at what people with autism and other disabilities
- 2:19Speaker 1: fear about a huge reform to the National Disability insurance scheme,
- 2:23Speaker 1: and how it feels to be the man in charge
- 2:25Speaker 1: of slashing the scheme. That's right here, Tuesday Morning,