Nightlife News Breakdown - Greg Jericho - The Guardian
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Nightlife News Breakdown - Greg Jericho - The Guardian

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202620 min

Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Greg Jericho, Columnist with the Guardian and Chief Economist with The Australia Institute.

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Well there was more sad news this afternoon when the news came through from the hospital

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Nightlife, news breakdown. Well there was more sad news this afternoon when the news came through from the hospital that Federal MP Helen Haynes had now had both her legs amputated.

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Her husband Phil, who I must say was a model of grace today addressing the media late this afternoon. He had an update and some reasons for optimism. My name is Phil Haynes. I've been married to Helen for almost 40 years. In fact, next month we celebrate our 40th anniversary. I'm here today to give you an update about Helen's

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health. On behalf of my family, our three children, their partners and our two gorgeous grandchildren who've just born in the last four months and in the last four weeks. So they give us all great joy and happiness to have them here with us. His performance for a person who is not in front of the media I thought was

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