Assange Free 27/06/24

Julian Assange will today start his new life as a free man with his wife and two young sons in Australia. 

The cost of dying is set to skyrocket in Victoria, with the Allan government considering introducing what has been panned as a “death tax by stealth”. 

CS Energy issued warnings that maintenance was being neglected at its plants just two years before a major explosion tore through Callide Power Station. 

A wealthy Adelaide college has raked in more than a quarter of a billion dollars in recent years.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is the latest from your news feed. It's Thursday,
the twenty seventh of June. Julian Assange will today start
his new life as a freeman with his wife and
two young sons in Australia. The fifty two year old
Wiki Leak's founder touchdown at Canberra Airport on Wednesday night,

(00:24):
hours after pleading guilty in a US court on the
Pacific island of Saipan to one count of conspiring to
obtain and disclose classified US national defense documents a tei eye.
Assange was emotional at the conclusion of the fast paced
hearing when the judge declared, this case ends with me

(00:45):
here in Saipan. The cost of dying is set to
skyrocket in Victoria, with the Allen government considering introducing what
has been panned as a death tax by stealth. The
move we'll see grieving family slugged thousands to enact the
wills of loved ones. With probate phase set to face

(01:06):
massive increases, the government has fast tracked a review of
the Supreme Court's probate fees by three years, with increases
of as much as six hundred and fifty percent being considered.
We'll be back after this, it's been revealed CS Energy
issued warnings that maintenance was being neglected at its plants

(01:28):
just two years before a major explosion tore through Callide
power station. The draft Brady report, released this week cited
a twenty nineteen review that found a backlog of maintenance
work exceeds approval limits and noted if ignored, it increases
the risk to the business that sites will experience increase

(01:50):
asset failures. A follow up review of maintenance in twenty
twenty two, some twelve months after the C four unit
explosion that cut power to four hundred and forty thousand Queenslanders,
found the backlog had not been brought back within KPI
limits and a wealthy Adelaide college has raked in more

(02:11):
than a quarter of a billion dollars in recent years.
Saint Peter's College, which charges a fee of more than
thirty one thousand dollars for year twelve tuition, is the
only school to boast a five year gross income of
more than two hundred and fifty million dollars. We'll have
an update to your newsfeed tomorrow