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Cop ‘sized up body-bag’ before murders · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Kristen Amiott with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. Bo Lamar Condon allegedly measured up
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  Speaker 1: a surfboard bag days before the murder of two men
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  Speaker 1: whose bodies were concealed in identical bags. The former New
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  Speaker 1: South Wales police officer is on trial for allegedly murdering
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  Speaker 1: TV presenter Jesse Baird and his partner, flight attendant Luke Davies,
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  Speaker 1: in February of 2024. he's pleaded not guilty to two.
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  Speaker 2: Counts of domestic violence-related murder and one count of aggravated
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  Speaker 2: break and enter. On Thursday, the jury was shown CCTV
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  Speaker 2: footage of Lamar Condon and a male friend at a
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  Speaker 2: sports shop at Westfield Miranda in Sydney South, days before
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  Speaker 2: the murders allegedly occurred. In the footage, Lamar Condon can
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  Speaker 2: be seen shopping for surfboard bags before apparently holding one
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  Speaker 2: up against his friend to gauge its size. Detective Sergeant
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  Speaker 2: Sasha Panazza told the court Lamar Condon paid for the
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  Speaker 2: bag using $ 90 in cash withdrawn from an ATM in Balmain,
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  Speaker 2: where he was living at the time. Panazza said the
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  Speaker 2: shopping centre clip was part of more than 14,000 hours
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  Speaker 2: of CCTV footage obtained by police during their investigation into
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  Speaker 2: the double murders of Baird and Davies at Baird's Paddington
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  Speaker 2: share house. The detective told the court the footage came
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  Speaker 2: from over 200 homes and businesses and covered a period
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  Speaker 2: of around six days. Some of the footage shown to
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  Speaker 2: the jury on Wednesday includes Bolimar Condon attending various businesses
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  Speaker 2: across Sydney, purchasing items and withdrawing cash. The Crown says
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  Speaker 2: those activities are supported by receipts, invoices and bank statements
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  Speaker 2: relevant to its timeline of events. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
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  Speaker 2: says regulation of artificial intelligence is more important than ever
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  Speaker 2: in the wake of an Australian government hack by one
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  Speaker 2: of America's AI giants. The PM, who's currently travelling in
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  Speaker 2: New York, announced on Thursday a rogue open AI agent
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  Speaker 2: hacked Medicare's Statistics Reporting Service portal in June. But the
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  Speaker 2: company took months to notify the Australian government of the breach.
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  Speaker 2: Deputy PM Richard Marles said OpenAI discovered the hack in August,
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  Speaker 2: but only told the government about it last weekend using
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  Speaker 2: a Generic Services Australia email address. OpenAI boss Sam Altman
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  Speaker 2: said the company's own investigation said no patient records were
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  Speaker 2: accessed by the agent, but the PM said it's not on.
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  Speaker 3: I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company
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  Speaker 3: way too long to inform the government what had occurred
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  Speaker 3: and the nature... of the way that that notification occurred
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  Speaker 3: as well was unacceptable.
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  Speaker 2: The government is establishing a task force to review the incident,
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  Speaker 2: which may have impacted as many as three other systems.
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  Speaker 2: Check out those stories live right now at theaustralian.com.au and
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  Speaker 2: come back to the front first thing in the morning
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  Speaker 2: for our look at the man saying goodbye to racing
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  Speaker 2: and making waves in the National Rugby League, Peter Volandis.
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  Speaker 2: That's right here, Friday morning.