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Breaking: Croc wrangler Matt Wright learns his fate · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey and
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  Speaker 1: this is an afternoon headlines edition of The Front out
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  Speaker 1: Back Wrangler Start Matt Wright has been found guilty of
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  Speaker 1: two counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice
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  Speaker 1: and acquitted of another charge. The case relates to a
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  Speaker 1: helicopter crash in which his co star Chris Wilson died
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  Speaker 1: and pilot Sebastian Robertson was seriously injured. Wright was found
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  Speaker 1: guilty overlying about fuel levels in the crashed helicopter and
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  Speaker 1: asking the pilot to adjust flight records, writes. Famous for
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  Speaker 1: being on Netflix and Apple TV, where he's seen flying
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  Speaker 1: into remote wilderness areas to harvest crocodile eggs for the
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  Speaker 1: handbag industry, The jury couldn't reach a verdict on a
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  Speaker 1: third charge for right, which related to a late night
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  Speaker 1: conversation where Wright allegedly suggested destroying evidence. The charge was dismissed.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty disappointed in the verdict. You know, well, he's been
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  Speaker 1: a long fight and we've got a appealing in process
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  Speaker 1: now and we'll keep moving forward with this. But it's
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  Speaker 1: been devastating for everyone involved. The Chinese government has announced
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  Speaker 1: former Labor State Premiers Bob Carr and Dan Andrews will
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  Speaker 1: attend a military parade in Tiananmen Square to mark eighty
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  Speaker 1: years since the end of China's war with Japan. North
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  Speaker 1: Korea's Kim Jong un and Russia's Vladimir Putin will also attend.
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  Speaker 1: According to China, Jaws is back in cinemas this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: fifty years after it broke Hollywood records and terrified generations
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  Speaker 1: of beach goers. Director Steven Spielberg was just twenty six
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  Speaker 1: when he created the horror masterpiece, and this weekend in
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  Speaker 1: the front our film critic Stephen Roma joins me to
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  Speaker 1: discuss exactly what made Jaws so scary and why it
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  Speaker 1: continues to terrify today. Check out all our journalism live
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