Sasha Barbagat

The details were made public by a judge yesterday, along with other material that was before the New South Wales local court for his successful bail last week.

Now, a statement by the Office of the Special Investigator said they held concerns that the 47-year-old was attempting to relocate outside Australia, but that the final destination and duration of this relocation was unclear.

Robert Smith is facing five counts of the war crime of murder.

He's yet to enter pleas, but has categorically denied the allegations.

Now, you might have seen this topic bubbling away this week amid a campaign by independent Senator David Pocock and the Australia Institute, both of which want a 25% tax slapped on gas exports.

And we did deep dive this yesterday morning as part of a broader look at tax reform.

The ep is in the show notes if you want to hear more after this episode.

And it's worth noting the person we interviewed is from the Australia Institute, so we know that they are in favour of this.

Now, this proposal has gained traction in the community and in caucus.

There are concerns, though, within the government that taxing these producers now could hurt diplomatic relations with the countries we export to, and that in turn could affect our ability to get fuel from them.

Helen, we know that...

Our gas exports are a major leverage point in ensuring that we are getting enough fuel during this fuel crisis.

So, yeah, government officials are kind of going, well, if we do this now, what will happen to our fuel supply?

Yeah, just quickly an update as well on the NDIS changes that Labor is going to try and get through Parliament.

It looks like they won't have any issues passing those amendments to eligibility rules and some other reforms that they want to make to the system to make it cheaper.

It will have bipartisan support from the coalition.

Angus Taylor came out yesterday to say they will work with Labor on getting those reforms through.

Now, when asked about the allegations against him and sleeping with a 16-year-old on The Megyn Kelly Show, he described himself as an exploiter of women and said that fame fuelled opportunities for endless consent.

Now, Brand was due to stand trial in June this year on those first five charges, but since being slapped with the two additional offences, the trial is now set to take place in October.

And this trial will take up to eight weeks and is set to address Brand's seven charges of rape and sexual assault relating to six women.