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Firmus - the tech company part-owned by Oliver Curtis, who served prison time for insider trading - has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with OpenAI to build two data centres in Malaysia as part of a multi-year partnership. Plus, the trial of three men accused of killing Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson gets under way in Mexico, and an iconic Sydney mansion is rumoured to be back on the market.
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OpenAI signs multibillion-dollar deal with Oliver Curtis’ Firmus, fuelling record float
We want to find out why’: Aussie surfers’ parents face suspected killers as Mexico trial begins
Sydney’s iconic Boomerang mansion back on the market with a $100m price tag
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The mysterious Mahmood Fazal - a bikie turned journalist who was hired, and then fired by the ABC, is at the centre of another drama: did the Australian Federal Police try to suppress his work as a reporter? That’s today’s story.
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Sacked ABC journalist’s dramatic terror raid story ‘never happened’
Sacked ABC journalist’s ‘terror raid’ story exposed as a Gold Coast drug bust
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Jasper Leak, who also composed our theme. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack, Joshua Burton.
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One Nation has a new policy for Australians’ superannuation account: the opportunity for renters and homeowners to hold onto a portion of compulsory superannuation contributions. Plus, electric vehicles are officially more popular than old-fashioned gas guzzlers.
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Hanson rejects claims early super access will fuel price pressures
How cheap Chinese brands made electric cars the top choice for Australian drivers
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Just eight weeks until the midterm elections and Donald Trump is switching strategy, asking his base to vote Republican as if his own name were on the ballot. But as the Iran war sends cost of living spiralling, will voters buy his claim that America is winning? Cameron Stewart joins us.
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Tit-for-tat attacks in ‘under control’ Strait of Hormuz
Commentary by Cameron Stewart: Donald Trump bets on long game to weaken Iran’s war-torn economy
Iran releases video of supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Lia Tsamoglou. Our team includes Tiffany Dimmack, Joshua Burton and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.
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Characters developed over six decades have opened the door to Jim Henson’s world for a whole new generation. Now, Henson’s culture-defining works, from the Muppets to The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, will feature in an immense new exhibition at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art.
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Behind the magic of Jim Henson as huge creature exhibition opens in Queensland
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Lia Tsamoglou. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Joshua Burton and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.
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Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios will enter a drug treatment program, effectively ending his three-month suspension from the sport. Plus, bird flu appears in Sydney, and Emirates new premium economy upgrades.
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Nick Kyrgios enters drug treatment program as his three month ban for cocaine use comes to an end
Bird flu detected in Sydney for first time
Emirates unveils ‘world first’ privacy screens for its premium economy cabin
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It’s Friday and many of us need a stiff drink – especially the veteran wine collectors who’ve allegedly been robbed in what appears to be an audacious heist from storage facilities around the country. It’s the high-end version of a crime epidemic that’s sweeping retail and our journo Eli Greenblat, who broke the yarn, is here.
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The great wine heist: Collectors left abandoned by storage giant
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Joshua Burton. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack, and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.
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The nightmare engulfing professional services giant KPMG just got worse, with news the firm’s former Chief Operations Officer Eileen Hoggett is suing. Plus, JD Vance says the world may have reached its so-called “end days”, and The Australian’s Chief Film Critic Nikki Gemmell’s first-ever one-star movie review.
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Former KPMG exec Eileen Hoggett sues firm seeking documents
The Antichrist may already be among us, claims JD Vance
& Sons: A bloodless and inert film even Bill Nighy cannot save
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We all know the feeling; you accidentally CC the wrong person and suddenly you’re in a world of email-induced pain. Today, how a confidential One Nation legal note found its way to The Australian and what it tells us about the party’s behind-the-scenes melodrama.
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Whoops! Pauline Hanson’s $750-an-hour lawyer suffers epic email clanger
From 2019: One Nation rift erupts in Senate showdown
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Lia Tsamoglou. Our team includes Tiffany Dimmack, Joshua Burton and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.
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Every kid wants to know they were wanted. Children born to surrogate mothers know that for sure - but they also have very strong opinions about the strict laws governing surrogacy in Australia, from whether birth mothers should be paid to who their real parents are. Today, thoughts from inside these very modern families.
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Children of surrogates give emotional evidence to law review
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Joshua Burton and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.
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