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Arrests in multi-state CFMEU raids · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian, I'm Clare Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: The Front's afternoon headlines. Andrew Hastie says One Nation leader
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  Speaker 1: Pauline Hanson and her star recruit Barnaby Joyce are, quote,
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  Speaker 1: lying cowards. The Liberal MP has vowed to fight One
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  Speaker 1: Nation exceptionally hard at the next election. Hanson's Please Explain
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  Speaker 1: cartoon program called Hasty, who is a West Australian MP
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  Speaker 1: and former soldier, a traitor over evidence he gave during
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  Speaker 1: the defamation trial of former commando Ben Robert Smith.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm calling on Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce
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  Speaker 2: to own this cartoon. And if they own it, step
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  Speaker 2: out into the house or outside the house, I don't
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  Speaker 2: really care, use parliamentary privilege or don't, and explain why
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  Speaker 2: I and other veterans and indeed serving members of the
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  Speaker 2: ADF who think war crimes are wrong are traitors to
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  Speaker 2: their country.
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  Speaker 1: Hastie, who was a captain in the Special Air Service
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  Speaker 1: Regiment and served alongside Robert Smith in Afghanistan, was subpoenaed
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  Speaker 1: to give evidence by Nine Entertainment, which was defending its
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  Speaker 1: reporting of war crimes allegations. Robert Smith was subsequently charged
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  Speaker 1: with five counts of war crime murder and has indicated
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  Speaker 1: he will plead not guilty. Three people have been arrested
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  Speaker 1: in a raid of the Brisbane headquarters of the powerful
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  Speaker 1: Construction Union. Queensland police detectives linked to the state government's
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  Speaker 1: Commission of Inquiry into the CFMEU. On Wednesday, executed search
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  Speaker 1: warrants at the Bowen Hills premises and private homes as
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  Speaker 1: part of an investigation into allegations of corruption related to
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  Speaker 1: the 2032 Olympics, which are being held in Brisbane. A
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  Speaker 1: commercial building and several homes were also raided by Victorian police.
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  Speaker 1: The Victorian raids relate to allegations about benefits allegedly provided
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  Speaker 1: to union officials. Blanche Delpuget, the acclaimed Australian writer and
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  Speaker 1: widow of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, died in a
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  Speaker 1: Sydney hospital on Tuesday. She was 82. Delpuget was a
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  Speaker 1: celebrated journalist and author who built a career at publications
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  Speaker 1: around the globe, including Woman's Day in Sydney and News
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  Speaker 1: of the World on Fleet Street in London. Her biography
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  Speaker 1: of then PM Bob Hawke won the New South Wales
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  Speaker 1: Premier's Award in 1983. After Hawke's marriage with his first
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  Speaker 1: wife Hazel broke up, he and Delpuget married in 1995.
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  Speaker 1: Blanche Delpuget is survived by one son and three stepchildren.
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  Speaker 1: for our look at the latest surprise from the government's
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  Speaker 1: big budget shake-up. Attacks on the youngest members of Australian families,
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  Speaker 1: newborn babies. That's right here Thursday morning.