Nightlife News Breakdown - Katina Curtis - Capital Brief
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Nightlife News Breakdown - Katina Curtis - Capital Brief

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202617 min
  • Politics

Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Katina Curtis, Senior Political Correspondent for Capital Brief, who has been covering federal politics for over a decade.

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Well Flowers continued to build up outside the Wangaratta Electorate Office of Indi MP Helen Haynes,

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Nightlife, news breakdown. Well Flowers continued to build up outside the Wangaratta Electorate Office of Indi MP Helen Haynes, who remains in a critical condition in hospital in Melbourne,

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after a car ramming attack on the street on Monday. Now Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke to ABC Sydney earlier today about how the aggression that was on display has become normalised in Australian politics. He said that having security is a new feature of his political career.

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When I was Deputy Prime Minister, when I was a senior minister in the government, I had no security. When I was leader of the opposition, I did not have security. Today, there is much more security necessary as a result of the assessments that are made by the security agencies about people in public life.

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