The Front

“Wholly unsatisfactory”: that’s a coroner’s verdict on the actions of a psychiatrist who took Bondi Junction killer Joel Cauchi off his medications five years before he stabbed six people to death while suffering a psychotic episode.
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A passionate young woman with strong views about Palestine: Lauren Lancaster is unknown outside student politics, but the former University of Sydney student representative council president, who’s condemned Israel for ‘ethnic cleansing’, is the daughter of Richard Lancaster SC, the senior counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.
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This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Claire Harvey and edited by Lia Tsamoglou. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Tiffany Dimmack, Joshua Burton and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.
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Randa’s back: the controversial anti-Israel activist who was at the centre of the collapse of Australia’s oldest writers’ festival, Randa Abdel-Fattah, will appear alongside literary figure Louise Adler at a so-called celebration of free speech event in Adelaide.
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In new court documents former Prime Minister Scott Morrison faces new accusations he froze out and victimised a senior staffer after the rape of Brittany Higgins. It comes from Fiona Brown - whose career was destroyed by false allegations from Higgins that she tried to cover up the rape. Now Brown says in a statement of claim lodged with the federal Court that the former PM’s top advisers gagged her and that she felt ‘frightened and intimidated’ by Morrison’s actions.
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This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Claire Harvey and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, Joshua Burton and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has put the cash rate up for the first time in two years. As mortgage rates follow suit, we explore the thinking behind the central bank’s unanimous decision.
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