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‘Money well spent’: Minns backs Royal Commission extension · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's Biggest News from The Australia and Unclaire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: The Front's afternoon headlines. It's costing one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: one million dollars and concluding at the end of this week.
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  Speaker 1: But why the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion
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  Speaker 1: should be longer and more comprehensive according to a growing
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  Speaker 1: chorus of Jewish and other leaders. The latest is New
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  Speaker 1: South Wales's Labour Premier Chris Mins, who's agreeing with the
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  Speaker 1: federal Coalition that the hearings should be continued. There's also
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  Speaker 1: been critique that Jewish community leaders, including Josh Friedenberg, haven't
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  Speaker 1: been called to appear, and that hearings have focused on
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  Speaker 1: the experience of victims of antisemitism rather than the actions
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  Speaker 1: of its perpetrators. That means there have been moving stories
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  Speaker 1: from parents, teachers and community leaders, but no hard questioning
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  Speaker 1: of academics, social media activists or protesters about why they've
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  Speaker 1: been amping up hatred against Jewish Australians. Here's Chris Mins,
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  Speaker 1: if we.
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  Speaker 2: Need to go a couple of weeks long, given that
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  Speaker 2: most of the expense was spent setting it up, that
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  Speaker 2: was seen to be money well spent because both the
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  Speaker 2: federal and and the state government are relying on these
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  Speaker 2: recommendations to shape some of our policy.
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  Speaker 1: The Royal Commission, led by former High Court Justice Virginia Bell,
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  Speaker 1: began its final week of scheduled public hearings on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: The Commissioner is due to hand down her final report
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  Speaker 1: in December. Five. Sydney Swan's players at the center of
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  Speaker 1: an alleged sexual assault scandal have been scratched from the
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  Speaker 1: AFL's annual Brownlow Medal ceremony in September, but they'll still
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  Speaker 1: be eligible to win the award, which recognizes the best
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  Speaker 1: and fairest players in Aussie Rules. Isaac Keeney, Riley Biss,
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  Speaker 1: James Jordan, Nick Blakey and Chad Warner won't play for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the twenty twenty sixth season after police
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  Speaker 1: were called to a Melbourne hotel early on Monday morning
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  Speaker 1: last week. The men have been stood down by the
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  Speaker 1: club after women working for an exotic dancing agency made
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  Speaker 1: allegation of sexual touching. Victoria Police's sex crime squad are investigating,
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  Speaker 1: but no one's been charged. The players have denied any wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 1: The Powerful Construction Union has been raided by police in Victoria,
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  Speaker 1: with officers from a task force investigating alleged corrupt kickbacks
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  Speaker 1: taking five people into custody at the Construction, Forestry, Mining
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  Speaker 1: and Energy Union headquarters in Melbourne. Allegations of criminal infiltration
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  Speaker 1: of giant infrastructure work sites have sparked a Royal commission
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  Speaker 1: in Victoria, with new Labour Premier Ben Carroll vowing to
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  Speaker 1: expose what he says is unacceptable evidence of violence and
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  Speaker 1: corruption on taxpayer funded projects. Check out those stories live
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  Speaker 1: right now at the Australian dot Com dou and come
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  Speaker 1: back to the front first thing in the morning for
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  Speaker 1: our look at the concussion drama gripping contact sports around
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  Speaker 1: the world. When even insurance companies say the risk is
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  Speaker 1: too great, who's looking after the players who put their
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  Speaker 1: bodies on the line. That's right here, Tuesday morning.