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- 0:01Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm christaname it with
- 0:04Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. One Nation has unveiled the team
- 0:09Speaker 1: that will take on Labor and the Liberals at the
- 0:12Speaker 1: Victorian state election in November. Pauline Hanson named Warren Pickering
- 0:16Speaker 1: as the party's state leader. He said their policies would
- 0:20Speaker 1: be unveiled in the coming weeks and vowed to crack
- 0:23Speaker 1: down on crime in Victoria and establish a corruption Royal Commission.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Quote with teeth.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Top of the list is crime, crime and corruption. Absolutely,
- 0:32Speaker 2: we absolutely support Royal Commission and a one Nation government.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Royal Commission won't be a soft touch. It will have
- 0:37Speaker 2: teeth and heads. We'll roll. Do you expect you'll be
- 0:39Speaker 2: able to govern in your own rights? Absolutely we do
- 0:41Speaker 2: and we intend to.
- 0:42Speaker 1: If you don't anticipate needing to be in coalition with anyone.
- 0:45Speaker 2: We'll manage that situation if it eventuates.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Hanson defended her decision to bar the ABC and The
- 0:51Speaker 1: Guardian from the party's official campaign launch on Monday.
- 0:55Speaker 2: I'm not putting up with their rubbish. I'm not putting
- 0:57Speaker 2: up for their spin, their lives whatsoever.
- 1:00Speaker 1: I want truth and omstick you get it from me,
- 1:02Speaker 1: I expect it back from the media. The trial of
- 1:06Speaker 1: once powerful radio broadcaster Alan Jones got underway in Sydney
- 1:10Speaker 1: on Monday. The court heard Jones allegedly gifted one complainant,
- 1:14Speaker 1: known by the pseudonym J a car to drive himself
- 1:17Speaker 1: to training. The Crown also alleged Jones told the complainant
- 1:21Speaker 1: he loved him and kissed him without consent at Jones's
- 1:24Speaker 1: apartment overlooking Sydney Harbor in two thousand and three. Jones
- 1:28Speaker 1: has pleaded not guilty to twenty counts of indecent assault
- 1:32Speaker 1: and two counts of sexual touching, and vehemently denies the
- 1:36Speaker 1: allegations made by six complainants. The trial is expected to
- 1:40Speaker 1: last for four months. You can read rolling coverage and
- 1:43Speaker 1: analysis by our journalists at the Australian dot com dot au.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Two people were killed when two firefighting helicopters collided in
- 1:52Speaker 1: mid air in Greece on Sunday local time. The aircraft,
- 1:56Speaker 1: which were leased from the Sunshine Coast based McDermott Aviation Group,
- 2:00Speaker 1: were fighting catastrophic wildfires near Athens when the incident occurred.
- 2:04Speaker 1: A Danish pilot and a Greek liaison officer on board
- 2:08Speaker 1: one of the water bombers were killed when it exploded
- 2:10Speaker 1: and crashed after clipping the underbelly of the second aircraft.
- 2:15Speaker 1: The pilot of the second helicopter was able to execute
- 2:17Speaker 1: a safe landing, and Greek Fire Services said four crew
- 2:21Speaker 1: members had been recovered. Firefighters are battling wildfires amid record
- 2:26Speaker 1: breaking heat waves and widespread drought across Europe. Australian pop
- 2:32Speaker 1: star Delta Gudram closed the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in
- 2:35Speaker 1: sensational fashion on Monday morning. Will Swanton writes for The Australian.
- 2:47Speaker 1: The Glasswegian rescue mission was a spectacular success after the
- 2:51Speaker 1: Scottish city acquired hosting rights from Victoria. In twenty twenty four,
- 2:55Speaker 1: seventy six year old lawn bowl sensation Louise Hoskins made
- 2:59Speaker 1: history as the oldest competitor to win a Commonwealth Games
- 3:02Speaker 1: gold medal overnight. Her victory in the women's power pairs
- 3:05Speaker 1: with teammate Serena Bonnell takes Australia's medal hall to seventy gold,
- 3:10Speaker 1: forty five silver and fifty six bronze. Check out those
- 3:18Speaker 1: stories live right now at the Australian dot Com dot
- 3:20Speaker 1: AU and come back to the front first thing in
- 3:23Speaker 1: the morning for our look at what the future holds
- 3:25Speaker 1: for Australia's spiraling housing market. That's right here, Tuesday morning,