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Headlines: Antoinette Lattouf’s lawyer rips into ABC bigwig · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. An eighty gun salute, thousands of
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  Speaker 1: marching soldiers with bayonets fixed and automatic weapons and shouted
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  Speaker 1: declarations of patriotism. That's the scene unfolding in Beijing's Chienomen
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  Speaker 1: Square today as China celebrates eighty years since the defeat
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  Speaker 1: of Japan in World War Two. Former Victorian Premier Daniel
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  Speaker 1: Andrews has been photographed walking a red carpet and shaking
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  Speaker 1: hands with Chinese leader Shijinping at the parade. Also in
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  Speaker 1: attendance are former New Zealand Labor Prime Minister Helen Clark,
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  Speaker 1: Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
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  Speaker 1: A fiery hearing before the Federal Court in the case
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  Speaker 1: of sacked presenter Antoinette Latouf, who successfully sued the ABC
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  Speaker 1: for pulling her off air, Barrister Oshi Forgeir, representing the
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  Speaker 1: toof says the ABC has suggested an infinitismally small penalty
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  Speaker 1: forgear cross examined the ABC's Chief People Officer, Dina Amarelli,
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  Speaker 1: putting to her that the ABC had made totally inauthentic
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  Speaker 1: submissions and had treated Latouf deplorably. Justice Darryl Rangier said
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  Speaker 1: Forgear's cross examination was a waste of the court's time
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  Speaker 1: and quite irrelevant. Amarelli said she had personally apologized to Latouf.
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  Speaker 1: The ABC told the court it made an inadvertent mistake
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  Speaker 1: of law in removing her from air. Check out those
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  Speaker 1: stories live right now at the Australian dot Com dot
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  Speaker 1: a U and come back to the front tomorrow for
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  Speaker 1: a close look at that Chinese military parade and what
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  Speaker 1: it means for the rest of the world.