The Front

Russell Brand is a convicted sexual predator. Hiding in plain sight, he boasted of his behaviour for decades – while the world laughed along. Brand’s crimes are heinous, cementing him as what The Australian’s literary editor Caroline Overington calls a ‘bad person with bad instincts’. Today, she joins Claire Harvey to ask: to what degree is the culture that enabled him complicit?
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How the UK entertainment industry embraced Russell Brand’s predatory persona

Court shown photos from night of alleged rape in Russell Brand trial

‘Sexual predator’ Brand ‘hoped to sleep with 5000 girls’
The weekend edition of The Front is co-produced by Claire Harvey and Jasper Leak. The host is Claire Harvey. Jasper Leak is The Australian’s audio lead.
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Pat Cummins says Usman Khawaja is “100 per cent wrong” about his allegations that the entire Australian test team knew that three members were using sandpaper on the field to tamper with the ball in 2018. The test cricket captain addressed Khawaja’s claims about the so-called ‘sandpapergate’ scandal in an hour-long press conference on Friday morning.
Plus, Victoria Police announce they won’t criminally charge four Sydney Swans players involved in a scandal at a Melbourne hotel. The players have always maintained their innocence.
Read more:
Australian Test captain faces media over Khawaja Sandpapergate allegations
Commentary by Will Swanton: Cummins faces moment of truth as Cricket Australia boss avoids action
David Warner addresses sandpaper scandal on following Pat Cummins denial
Victoria Police clear Sydney Swans players over Pullman Hotel episode
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Jensen Huang has resigned effective immediately from the world's most powerful company, Nvidia, after alleged affairs with an employee and a woman American officials believe is a Chinese spy. But the so-called honey trap is a lesson for boardrooms in Australia and around the world.
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Nvidia is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang ‘had affair with staffer’; Republicans set to subpoena Nvidia boss
Nvidia Chinese spy scandal puts $6bn of Australian retirement savings at risk
Jensen Huang’s ousting could leave Firmus and other neocloud side bets out in the cold
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 theme.
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Australian test cricket captain Pat Cummins will on Friday address allegations made by his former teammate Usman Khawaja about a notorious ball-tampering saga on Friday.
Plus, The Australian reveals plans to save David Jones were drawn up months ago.
Read more:
Pat Cummins to front media over Usman Khawaja’s ‘long, full list’ of ball-tampering claims
Pat Cummins in tense exchange with wife Becky amid fallout from Usman Khawaja claims
‘It didn’t’: Mitchell Starc rejects Usman Khawaja ball-tampering claims in new book
Landlords rebuffed plan to save David Jones through staged closures
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After fighting all the way to the UK’s High Court to protect his identity and warning he was suicidal, the world’s most successful living children’s author and wildly popular entertainer David Walliams has lost his legal bid to silence the media. In this episode of The Front, host Claire Harvey and The Australian’s literary editor Caroline Overington break down the lifting of reporting restrictions, the explosive allegations of predatory behavior that followed, and the wider cultural reckoning that has stemmed from his dumping by publisher HarperCollins and hot mic disaster on Britain’s Got Talent.
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Crude jokes and TV winks: David Walliams’ circle of enablers
Ice cream and wildly inappropriate jokes: my day with David Walliams
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Jasper Leak and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, and Joshua Burton.
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