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- 0:02Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
- 0:05Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. The royal family's prodigal son, Prince Harry,
- 0:10Speaker 1: will return to the UK with his wife Megan and
- 0:12Speaker 1: their two children. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex left
- 0:16Speaker 1: Britain in twenty twenty amid a storm of claims about bullying,
- 0:19Speaker 1: racism and family divisions. Seven year old Prince Archie and
- 0:24Speaker 1: his little sister, Princess Lilibet have reportedly been enrolled in
- 0:28Speaker 1: a school outside London, and the plan is for the
- 0:31Speaker 1: family to live in a private, non royal residence while
- 0:34Speaker 1: maintaining their status as non working royals. They'll keep the
- 0:39Speaker 1: mansion in Montecito, California and the holiday house in Portugal,
- 0:42Speaker 1: but the Sussex has reportedly planned to keep going with
- 0:45Speaker 1: their philanthropic and other business interests, including Meghan's lifestyle brand,
- 0:50Speaker 1: as ever, partnerships with Netflix and Spotify have expired. What's
- 0:56Speaker 1: not clear is how the family's security will be handled.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Prince Harry has fought a long and bitter battle with
- 1:02Speaker 1: senior public servants and Buckingham Palace over his family's entitlement
- 1:06Speaker 1: to round the clock taxpayer funded police protection, which he
- 1:09Speaker 1: says is his entitlement as someone who was born into
- 1:12Speaker 1: the royal family and a level of risk he never
- 1:15Speaker 1: asked for. He's also been locked in a legal battle
- 1:19Speaker 1: with the media. He lost a privacy case against the
- 1:22Speaker 1: Daily Mail group of newspapers and is now obliged to
- 1:25Speaker 1: pay his share of tens of millions of pounds in
- 1:28Speaker 1: the legal costs incurred by Associated Newspapers Limited. Harry's father,
- 1:32Speaker 1: King Charles, was reportedly informed about the couple's upcoming move
- 1:36Speaker 1: just days ago, and their speculation the move will be
- 1:40Speaker 1: as soon as September. Harry visited the UK to promote
- 1:44Speaker 1: the Invictus Games in early July, with Megan Archie and
- 1:47Speaker 1: Lilybet joining him for part of the trip, including a
- 1:50Speaker 1: visit to Princess Diana's grave in Northamptonshire. The body of
- 1:56Speaker 1: missing hiker Lillly Cooper has been found in the New
- 1:58Speaker 1: South Wales Southern Highlands. The eighteen year old from Oakdale
- 2:01Speaker 1: in Sydney, Southwest had been missing for eight days after
- 2:05Speaker 1: going for a solo bushwalk in Natai National Park in
- 2:08Speaker 1: South Wales. Premier Chris Mins was initially told Lily had
- 2:11Speaker 1: been found alive and shared his joy and relief with
- 2:15Speaker 1: a Budget Estimates Committee meeting.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Well, look at it is this. This is accurate. Yes,
- 2:21Speaker 2: so we've got some with respect, We've got some fantastic news,
- 2:24Speaker 2: mister chair. Lily Hoopo has been found alive. I saw
- 2:27Speaker 2: that I found in the bush with half a bottle
- 2:30Speaker 2: of oil with her.
- 2:31Speaker 1: But moments later MINS was informed Lily was deceased and
- 2:35Speaker 1: corrected his comments.
- 2:37Speaker 2: I've got some terrible news, and I apologize to the committee.
- 2:41Speaker 2: But it seems as if the early advice was wrong,
- 2:45Speaker 2: and Lily's body has been found and she's been found deceased.
- 2:49Speaker 2: And only raised that because I only raised that because
- 2:55Speaker 2: I made the earlier advice, and I'm very sorry for that.
- 2:57Speaker 2: But this is obviously devastating and I'm just profoundly sad
- 3:03Speaker 2: for a family and for all those concerns, and I
- 3:05Speaker 2: apologize to the committee.
- 3:07Speaker 1: This is Lily's family said earlier in the week they
- 3:10Speaker 1: were devastated by her disappearance. Big four consulting firm KPMG
- 3:17Speaker 1: will sack five hundred people after it was revealed to
- 3:20Speaker 1: be misusing confidential client information to drum up business KPMG's
- 3:25Speaker 1: partners also allegedly accepted perks like concert tickets from clients.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Chief executive John Sam's said conversations are underway with fifty partners,
- 3:35Speaker 1: while as many as four hundred and fifty client facing
- 3:38Speaker 1: staff are to be given the boot next week. Check
- 3:42Speaker 1: out those stories live right now at the Australian dot
- 3:45Speaker 1: com dot u and come back to the front first
- 3:48Speaker 1: thing in the morning for our look at the latest
- 3:49Speaker 1: podcast investigation by The Australians National Chief correspondent Hedley Thomas.
- 3:54Speaker 1: It's an exploration of the unsolved murder of a pregnant
- 3:57Speaker 1: mother almost forty years ago. That's right here Friday morning.