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Mr Collaery said the saga had not produced such an outcome because the opposition was "complicit" and "hopelessly compromised".
"It was to [then prime minister] Julia Gillard that [East Timor leader] Xanana Gusmao delivered a letter I drafted complaining in confidence about the bugging and asking that the matter be dealt with bilaterally in confidence."
The Gillard government responded by authorising the "installation of listening devices and other measures" in Mr Collaery's Canberra office, he said.
"What did the Labor government do? The answer is nothing for justice and everything for a cover-up," Mr Collaery said.
Shortly after Labor was ousted, the new government approved ASIO raids on Mr Collaery's office and the home of Witness K, generating outrage from East Timor after its legal documents were seized. The International Court of Justice forced Australia to cease spying on East Timor and its lawyer and return the documents.
Mr Warner and ASIO did not respond to requests for comment by deadline. Former Labor attorney-general Mark Dreyfus declined to comment. Ms Bishop's office did not return calls.
New York rapper Cam’ron knows way more than just big-name musicians. The hip-hop veteran has shared an epic moment alongside Hollywood star Adam Sandler.
Killa went to Instagram this week with the priceless shot.
On Wednesday, Cam blessed IG followers with an iconic-looking Dipset pic.
Recently, Cam channeled some serious Paid In Full vibes with an epic-looking shot of himself atop an all-pink car.
A few weeks ago, the Harlem native showed off celebs Karrueche Tran and Nick Young donning his gear.
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Michael Jackson’s former body-guard, Michael LaPerruque, has revealed that the late singer was a secret flasher, who used to drop his pants in front of staff.
LaPerruque, is a retired LA police officer and was a bodyguard for Jackson and his children for 15 years, the Daily Star reported.
The 55-year-old told the publication that one day he got called into Jackson’s hotel room and they were in his bedroom when he was talking about having a rash on the back of his legs.
“He says: ‘It’s itchy... da-da-da-da,’ LaPerruque said.
The body-guard said that while Jackson was talking to him, the King of Pop just dropped his pyjama bottoms.
LaPerruque added that he just stood looking at Jackson and he kept on talking about the rash on the back of his legs.
A plane crash was averted at the Des Moines Airport Thursday.
The pilot of an F-16 reported his engine was malfunctioning. Police and fire crews were called to the airport to standby.
The jet was able to make a number of passes and use up fuel before coming in for a soft landing.
A recent piece by Nick Cater in The Australian responds to a defence of graffiti on a Captain Cook statue in Sydney.
The Australian serves up contentless optimism versus contentless pessimism. Beats sober analysis I guess.
The ABC has advertised for a managing editor of audio current affairs, which could change the way AM, PM and Breakfast are produced.
Nick Cater's odd Bernie Sanders-Donald Trump comparison. Plus other media tidbits of the day.
By increasing the volume of “spray-and-pray” candidates, is LinkedIn really helping the hiring process?
Many people think that LinkedIn is up to something brilliant here. “Personal branding guru” Dan Schawbel predicts an end to job boards, and the resume itself–“companies will expect you to be on LinkedIn and if you’re not, then you can’t apply for jobs!” he writes.
We’re more circumspect. An “Apply with LinkedIn” will certainly make it easier for larger volumes of applicants to apply for jobs. But that’s all it does. To a certain extent, LinkedIn is supposed to be about simulating the world of connections, of schmoozing, of wheeling-and-dealing–the sorts of activities that so oft...
LinkedIn’s IPO filings show that “hiring solutions” account for 43% of the company’s revenue, so it makes sense for LinkedIn to try to grow that aspect of the site. But if LinkedIn wants to become a truly innovative force in hiring, it ought to focus on leveraging its data to make connections that otherwise wouldn’t be...
If LinkedIn wants to earn its soaring share price in the wake of its IPO, it will need to do a few things. First, it needs to win the international market–and widgets, plug-ins, and buttons aren’t the key here (cultural sensitivity, among other things, is more important). Second, it may need to genuinely disrupt the HR...
LinkedIn needs to do more than put job boards out of business. It needs to put head hunters out of business.
Palmerston North has done it again. Affirming its commitment to being a connected and safe city, Palmerston North has been reaccredited as an International Safe Community. The city joins a global community of around 60 cities to achieve Pan Pacific Safe Community accreditation.
This was officially announced in a signing ceremony today (19 March) between the accrediting centre, Safe Communities Foundation NZ (SCFNZ), and Palmerston North. The event was attended by Mayor Grant Smith, members of the Council and Safety Advisory Board and representatives from partner organisations.
The World Health Organisation views the Safe Communities approach as an important means of delivering evidence-based violence and injury prevention strategies at the local level.
Debbie Duncan, General Manager – Community, credits the reaccreditation as a true community effort.
“We are honoured to again earn the recognition of being a Safe Community in New Zealand. This is more than just a title; it shows our dedication to making Palmerston North a safer place to live, work, study and visit.
and Placemaking initiatives to make public spaces safer and more vibrant.
These collectively sealed the deal for Palmerston North to be recertified as a Safe Community under SCFNZ’s criteria and assessment.
Palmerston North City Council is the lead agency for the Safe Community through the efforts of the Safety Advisory Board. Other members are: Rangitāne o Manawatū, New Zealand Police, Palmerston North SafeCity Trust, MidCentral District Health Board, Department of Corrections, ACC, Ministry of Social Development, Massey...
Find more from Palmerston North City Council on InfoPages.
A Whangārei dairy owner predicts the latest tobacco price hike will only see an increase in dangerous robberies and for the safety of his family he is selling his businesses.
The dairy owner, who did not want to be named for security reasons, said he had been subjected to a violent robbery last year when knife-wielding robbers jumped over the counter and demanded his wife hand over their 2-month-old baby girl.
His wife and another family member locked themselves in a back room to escape the robbers who also trashed the dairy. With their faces covered, the two robbers ripped out the cash register and emptied cigarettes off shelves and ran off. Just hours later police arrested two teenagers aged 15 and 16.
The dairy owner was not prepared to put his family at risk again and said he would sell his three dairies located around the city.
"I'm selling up because of safety. I worry for my family."
Even though he had security cameras, alarms and a fog cannon installed in his businesses that was not enough to guarantee his or his family's safety, he said.
"The penalties should be higher for those who do these crimes. They should get 10 years not just one. Either that or they reduce the price of cigarettes but that's not going to happen."
The latest rise sees a packet of 20 cigarettes increase to an average price of $28.
He said the profit margins on selling tobacco products was very slim but they drew people into the dairy and hopefully while they were there they would make sales for other products.
It meant long opening hours and operators were faced with the perpetual risk of violence.
Thieves targeting tobacco products and cash have used all manner of weapons in their attacks on dairy and small convenience shops in Northland over the last few years including a stolen car that was driven through the front door of a dairy in Whangarei.
He is not he first dairy owner to leave their business. Hikurangi dairy owner Hemant Sakar Lal closed his shop in 2017 after multiple robberies and the last incident which involved him being hit over the head with a tyre iron.
Northland police were advising businesses to make sure they had the tobacco products secured as per regulations and to make sure they knew how their security systems operated.
Sergeant James Calvert, Area Prevention Team supervisor, said dairy owners in Whangārei had been visited last year following a spate of armed robberies.
Shop owners were given advice and tips on how to make themselves safer and their stores a more difficult target for robbers.
The tax on tobacco will rise by 10 per cent on January 1 each year for the next four years.
That is expected to bring in an extra $425 million in tax over that period.
A Maori health organisation said a Smokefree 2025 strategy needed to look beyond tax alone that would reduce tobacco availability and appeal.
Hapai Te Hauora general manager of Tobacco Control Advocacy, Mihi Blair, asked why there were conversations about ways to protect tobacco and the shops that sold them rather than creating a strategy to phase them out.
"There would be no cigarettes to steal if they weren't available," Blair said.
"Every new year when there's a tax increase, we have the same conversations about protecting dairies from theft. We hope to start a new, more important conversation by asking how the government can limit where cigarettes are sold so communities already affected by tobacco aren't also harmed by the violence it is creati...
Another municipality has taken the first step to pulling out of the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department, the second in two weeks to do so.
Mount Pocono Borough Council voted 5-2 to send a letter to the department's commission stating its intention to leave the four-municipality police department at the start of 2014.
Coolbaugh Township voted on Dec. 18 to send a letter to the police commission stating its intention to leave, and sent the letter on Dec. 21.
Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock townships are the other two municipalities covered by the department. Neither has sent an intent letter, and officials from both townships said they don't plan to. Under the department's charter, the deadline to send an intent letter to be out of the department by 2014 is Monday.
Councilman Fred Courtright said Mount Pocono's "hand was forced" by Coolbaugh sending its letter, since the township is responsible for 42 percent of the department's $4.8 million budget.
"We had talked about it, but when Coolbaugh made its move, it was more of a safety valve for us," he said. "Now we have this in hand in case of the worst-case scenario."
A municipality sending the letter does not guarantee they will leave the department. The municipality can negotiate with the department throughout 2013 to stay and rescind the letter at any time.
Borough Council President John Finnerty said he "hated" voting to send the letter, and vowed to do what he could to try and keep the department together. He praised the department's work, but said the letter being sent is a budget matter, nothing else.
Finnerty and Councilman Roy Gross, who serves as the chairman of the police commission, both were part of the founding team of the department when it formed in 1994 as a combination of the Mount Pocono and Tobyhanna Township police departments.
Gross and William Jabara were the two dissenting votes to send the letter.
"We're looking after our financial behinds," he said. "Maybe we should have been talking about this previously, but we need to talk about it now."
Tunkhannock Township Supervisor and police commission Treasurer Fran DePiano said he hopes the issues will be worked out.
"We have to figure out what the root of the problem is, find out how to fix it and then get them to continue on," he said. "It's disappointing. But I will make every effort to see if we can rectify it."
Mount Pocono pays 49.7 percent of its revenue toward the police department and is in a precarious situation because it is nearly maxed-out on its property tax millage. To raise taxes likely would require permission from a judge.
If Coolbaugh left, Courtright said he believes the cost for the borough will rise and send it to court to try to raise taxes.
"If Coolbaugh pulls back its letter, then I would imagine we'd almost certainly pull ours back," Courtright said.
Elizabeth Holmes, pictured leaving federal court in San Jose in January.
“Blindspot” (8 p.m., NBC): Jane confronts her past as the team rushes to keep a deadly weapon out of a terrorist’s grasp.
“20/20: The Dropout” (9 p.m., ABC): “20/20” and “Nightline” present a two-hour documentary on the spectacular rise and fall of former Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes and her biotech company, Theranos. Once the youngest, self-made female billionaire, Holmes’ company and its nearly $10 billion valuation came cras...
“Hawaii Five-0” (9 p.m., CBS): Five-0 investigates the murder of a window washer and find that the victim is actually a renowned street artist who may have a politically motivated bounty on his head. Also, Grover and Adam look into the murder of a gambler, and Junior helps his father when they are reminded of his siste...
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” (9 p.m., The CW): Rebecca tries out for the local community theater, while Paula is courted by various law firms. Cheri Oteri guest stars.
“Bridezillas” (10 p.m., WEtv): The reality series returns to wreak another blast of wedding hell. Brace yourself for epic meltdowns, wild bachelorette blowouts, family feuds and more.
“Shrill” (Hulu): Aidy Bryant (“Saturday Night Live”) stars in this fresh new dramedy. Based on Lindy West’s popular memoir, it’s a six-episode series about an overweight young woman who is eager to change her life — but not her body. Annie is trying to start her career while juggling bad boyfriends, a sick parent, and ...
“Arrested Development” (Netflix): Brace yourself for another round with the loopy Bluths. The award-winning comedy returns with the eight remaining episodes of its fifth season, in which Buster heads toward a murder trial and the family is on the hook to build a “smart” border wall.
“Catastrophe” (Amazon Prime): In the fourth and final season, we re-join the couple after Rob’s secret relapse to alcoholism ended in a dramatic car crash and a forced confession to Sharon. Now, Rob tries to head on the straight and narrow and Sharon does her best to support. Can their relationship survive?
As the year comes to a close, it's time to look back at the best video games of 2018. This year has seen some of the biggest game releases of the console generation, including God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2. It was a good year to be a gamer, but it was also an excellent year to be a game reviewer: most of the big...
Although there is often a disconnect between fans and critics, this year saw both groups agreeing on titles more often than not. Sure, there were some games that critics hated and fans loved, and vice versa, but all in all (especially when it comes to the bigger AAA titles), these two often disparate groups saw eye to ...
So, which 2018 video games did critics love the most? The results might surprise you, based on their Metacritic review scores. Here are the top 20 video games of 2018, as chosen by critics throughout the year.
Here is an example of how classic games really never go out of style. Tetris got an update in 2018 for the PS4 with Tetris Effect, allowing players to spend their time fitting differently-shaped blocks into a pattern, with stunning visuals and music. It's just another form of Tetris, but it was so good that critics did...
Sometimes a simple platform game is all a player really needs. It's also sometimes what impresses reviewers the most, as is the case with Owlboy, which released this year on the PS4, as well as PC, Xbox One, and Switch. But it was the PS4 version that made critics sing. Reviewers found the game to be utterly captivatin...
Return of the Obra Dinn is a puzzle game by an indie developer that had all the critics talking about it. The unique graphics, along with the way that players have to use deductive reasoning and a special stopwatch to solve a mystery, had reviewers loving everything about it. Some critics called it one of the best murd...
What's old is new again, at least when it comes to Okami HD. The original game, known merely as Okami, first released way back in 2006 on PS2 and the Wii. It got a remaster on other platforms, although it didn't arrive in Nintendo Switch until 2018. That port, however, went over extremely well with critics. In a game t...
It's not every day that one hears about turn-based strategy games on the Nintendo Switch, but one such title that got critics' attention this year was Into The Breach, which takes place in the far future where humanity is at war with monsters called the Vek. Humans use mechs to fight these creatures, tactically decidin...
Now that VR has become a little more mainstream, critics are starting to find games that use virtual reality to the best of their ability. Astro Bot: Rescue Mission is one of those titles, a platform game that stars a series of robot characters, who get assigned to various rescue missions. Some critics think that the g...
Originally released on PC and PS4 in 2017, NieR: Automata was a sequel to 2010's NieR, which released on the PS3 and Xbox 360, and it continued the story that left off with the previous game. Set in the same post-apocalyptic world as NieR, NieR: Automata wowed players and critics alike, but Xbox One owners weren't able...
In Monster Hunter: World, players take on the role of a hunter, with a mission to either trap or hunt that roam in the game's massive world. The fantasy game takes players from the Old World to settle in the New World, where mysterious creatures roam free. Critics quickly cited that this game was the best in the franch...
Although Hollow Knight released on PC in 2017, it didn't make it to consoles until 2018. The game follows a knight on a quest as he tries to learn more about the mystery behind the abandoned kingdom of Hallownest, once swarming with insects. The 2D action adventure was a hit with critics when it released on consoles. C...
In 2005, Shadow of the Colossus originally released on the PlayStation 2. In 2018, though, the game got a remake, in the form of a PS4 version. The story follows a young man named Wander who finds himself in a forbidden world. His mission is to journey across that world and defeat the giant Colossi creatures to restore...
Bill Russell, deputy coordinator of the Sangamon County Office of Emergency Management, and his canine partner, Luther, have won national recognition for their recovery last year of the body of a Staunton man who drowned in Lake Lou Yaeger.

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