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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christinamio with the Front's afternoon headlines. Channel nine chief executive Matt Stanton wants the full broadcast rights for the National Rugby League and he'll make an eleventh hour bid to NRL boss Peter Landers to get them. The NRL is on the cusp of signing an historic five billion dollar deal with Dazone, which owns Foxtel. The Australian revealed on Wednesday that could see league fans paying an additional fifteen dollars per month for their Foxtail subscription, according to projections that haven't been independently verified. Stanton is expected to tell Lands broadcasting games across Foxtel will stymy the NRL's growth. Instead, he wants to secure the rights for nine and its streaming service STAN. The NROL Commission is expected to meet to discuss its options on Wednesday. The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has hed tech trillionaire Elon Musk fueled antisemitism online. The Royal Commission has entered its third block of public hearings, which will focus on the role social media played in Australia's antisemitism crisis. A digital antisemitism expert told the Royal Commission Musk set fire to the issue through his own social media posts and his management of x formerly known as Twitter. Building approvals have dropped for a third month in a row, falling by just over one percent in May. The biggest declines happened in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia. It's the first glimpse of the impact of housing tax reforms announced by the Albanese Labour government in the federal budget. Banks are also reporting a lower demand for mortgages, with some economists suggesting applications could continue to fall beyond the double digit drops recorded since the May budget. Twenty three time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams was knocked out in the first round of the Wimbledon Women's singles competition by Australian Maya Joint on Tuesday UK Time. It was William's first time back on center court in a singles competition since twenty twenty two. She competed in a doubles match at Queen's Club in June and will compete in the Wimbledon Women's doubles tournament with her sister Venus in the coming days. Twenty year old Maya Joint said playing Williams is a dream come true, even if her preparation left a bit to be desired.
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Speaker 2: I didn't get much sleep last night. I was up till like two a. I'm just thinking about it. I mean, she has such an aura, she's such a legend, and this quote has so many huge names that have played on it. I just yeah, I've been dreaming about this moment since I was a little kid, so this is pretty crazy.
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Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at the Australian dot com dot au and come back to the front first thing in the morning for our look at the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup and the Soccer Roos prospect. It's in the knockout round that's right here, Thursday morning.