Strengthening our hate speech laws, and our plans for the summer break
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Intro
Alice Dempster and Andrew Williams open the episode and preview the day's stories and themes.
Friday, 19 December: Strengthening our hate speech laws; A report into the Optus outage; Kylie goes for a new milestone; And our plans for the summer break...
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You can read more about the new hate speech laws here.
Get into the spirit with Kylie's XMAS.
Here's that Skye Gyngell meal plan we mentioned.
And here's Andrew's litany of lists:
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