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1. Germanwings co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane.

French officials have said that the co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday appears to have ‘deliberately’ crashed the plane after locking his captain out of the cockpit.

French prosecutor Brice Robin said 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz initiated the plane’s descent while alone at the controls.

The 30-minute cockpit voice recording retrieved from the black box “clearly” suggests that Andreas Lubitz “profited from the captain’s absence” after he left the cockpit to go to the toilet.

He said that the co-pilot “showed a desire to want to destroy” the plane.

The audio shows that in the last three minutes the passengers on the plane realised their fate and can be heard screaming.

Among the dead were Australian nurse Carol Friday and her son Greig, both from Melbourne.

For more read this post here.

 2. Adrian Bayley’s DNA lost after he confessed to a rape.

The Herald Sun reports that the DNA of Adrian Bayley – the man who murdered Jill Meagher was lost by police after he confessed to raping sex workers.  It was revealed yesterday that Adrian Bayley had been found guilty of three more brutal rapes of young women in Melbourne in the years before he murdered Ms Meagher.

It was proven beyond reasonable doubt that Bayley raped other women, including a young Dutch tourist in 2012, and two young prostitutes – one of them also in 2012 and the other almost 15 years ago.

The Herald Sun reports today that Bayley was convicted of sex attacks on five women and three under-age girls 1990 and 2000, but was not listed on Victoria’s Sex Offenders Register in 2004.

In 2001 his DNA was taken after an arrest, but even though he was classifying as a serious sexual offender his DNA sample was lost.

The Herald Sun has also revealed that a further 10 women, who were sex workers, were too scared of Bayley to make police statements against him.

For read Nina Funnell :“This man’s story shows that courts still don’t consider rape a serious crime.

3. Adrian Bayley verdict: Victorian parole system now toughest in Australia, Minister says.

By ABC

Changes to Victoria’s parole system have made it much harder for violent sex offenders like Adrian Bayley to be released on parole, the state’s Corrections Minister says.

Bayley has been found guilty of raping three more women in Melbourne in the months before he killed Jill Meagher in a Brunswick laneway in 2012.

He attacked two of the women while he was on parole for earlier raping sex workers in St Kilda.

He is now serving a life sentence for the murder and rape of Ms Meagher, an ABC employee.

Retired High Court judge Ian Callinan was commissioned by the former Coalition government to review the parole system in the wake of Ms Meagher’s murder and more than a dozen other murders by parolees.

Corrections Minister Wade Noonan said he was sickened by Bayley’s crimes, but reforms introduced since his conviction has made the Victoria’s parole system the toughest in the country.

“The crimes of Adrian Bayley are absolutely horrendous and shocking, quite frankly they sicken me,” Mr Noonan said.

“I can’t imagine how his victims must be feeling today, how his victims’ families are feeling.

“But obviously his crimes prompt governments to action, and indeed after Jill Meagher’s death what we had from the previous government were a raft of very significant reforms in the parole area, very appropriate reforms.”

He continued: “We’ve just come through the most significant reforms in that area which has seen Victoria become the toughest place in the country to be paroled.”

Mr Noonan said there had been an increase in the number of parole board members and it was now headed by retired Supreme Court judge.

He also said its budget had been doubled and the number of administrative staff had been significantly increased.

“It has a two-tiered system for making assessments around the suitability of violent sex offenders,” he said.

“That is a very different parole board to what it looked like a few years ago.”

Mr Noonan said it would now be very difficult for someone with Bayley’s background to be released.

“Parole is not a right, it’s a privilege and through his actions, Adrian Bayley has ensured that getting parole is [no] very difficult,” he said.

“I am very confident that should [a matter like Bayley] come up again, the sorts of reforms that have been put in place…would make it much, much harder for not only Bayley to get parole…but anyone in this situation going forward.

“All of those reforms don’t bring people back to life, but they do limit risk. You never eliminate risk completely in the community but they are vast and far ranging.

A version of this story was originally published on ABC and has been republished with full permission.

4. Driver of fatal hit-and-run in Brisbane has been found dead.

Police are preparing a report for the Coroner after the death of the man police believe was driving a dark-coloured sedan which struck and killed a 20-year old woman in Brisbane on Sunday morning.

Ashleigh Humphrys was heavily intoxicated when she was struck while walking home from her 20th birthday celebrations.

Police seized the car of a  54-year-old father who was travelling to work at the time of the accident.

When tracked down by police, the man said he did not know he had struck her. Police said charges were not certain.

The man’s death is said to not be suspicious.

 If you or someone you know needs help, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or BeyondBlue on 1300 224 636

 5. Malcolm Fraser state funeral today.

A state funeral will take place today in Melbourne for former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser who died last Friday.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is confirmed as attending along with former Prime Ministers Julia Gillard, John Howard and Paul Keating.

Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd are overseas and will miss the funeral. Kevin Rudd is sending his son, Marcus in his place.

His funeral service will be held at 11.30am at Scots’ Church in Melbourne.

Members of the public are welcome.

6. NSW Election predicted victory for Premier Mike Baird.

Tomorrow’s NSW election looks to provide victory to Premier Mike Baird with the latest Galaxy Poll showing the Coalition clearly in front with a two-party preferred lead of 55-45, up from 54-46 in its last poll a week earlier

Mike Baird’s lead as preferred premier has widened from 49-24 to 53-25.

 7. Thomas Kelly killer Kieran Loveridge moved after affair with guard.

The man who killed teenager Thomas Kelly, Kieran Loveridge, has been moved to Goulburn Supermax jail after an alleged “improper” relationship with a prison guard.

The 21-year-old is serving a 10-year jail sentence after a one-punch assault on Thomas Kelly in Kings Cross on July 7, 2012.

A NSW Corrective Services spokeswoman confirmed an “inmate has been moved to another correctional centre” to

“A female correctional officer has been suspended from duty at Mid-North Coast Correctional Centre after it was learned she had allegedly commenced an improper relationship with an inmate,”

8. Convicted rapist: “I could have been a CEO.”

Convicted rapist Luke Lazarus, the son of a Sydney nightclub owner, has told a sentencing hearing that he believed the rape of a young woman in an alley behind his father’s nightclub was consensual.

23-year old Lazarus told the court yesterday he was “shattered, horrified and sickened” after hearing the victim impact statement from the woman. Lazarus said the fact he had “done this unknowingly” made him “absolutely sick to my stomach”.

“What happened on that evening I honestly believe it was consensual.”

Lazarus said that, since his conviction he had been “decimated” even quitting his job.

“I essentially had the world at my feet,” Lazarus told the court. “I had what was perceived to be, and what many others perceived to be, the best graduate position.

“I could have been a CEO.”

Lazarus told the court that the rape happened just after a relationship ended with which left him shattered. He said his parents had not approved of the relationship.

Lazarus will be sentenced today.

 9. Mother arrested after leaving toddler in car while shopping.

A Sydney mother who allegedly left her two-year old daughter alone in a car for more than 40 minutes while she went shopping has been charged after police freed the little girl from the car.

Police say the two-year old was spotted inside the Nissan Murano in a carpark outside a shopping centre in the Sydney suburb of Miranda.

The child appeared to be in a state of discomfort in her booster seat. The windows of the car were reported to be wound up, but the air-conditioning inside was on.

Police used a baton to break one of the windows and released the child from the vehicle.

NSW Ambulance Paramedics transported her to Sutherland Hospital for observations. She was later released.

Shortly afterwards, the mother returned to the car and was issued a future court attendance notice for the offence of leave child/young person unsupervised in motor vehicle.

 10. Data retention laws pass Federal Parliament as Coalition and Labor vote together.

By ABC
Contentious data retention laws have passed Federal Parliament, with both major parties voting for the legislation in the Senate.

The laws will force telecommunications providers to keep records of phone and internet use for two years and allow security agencies to access the records.

Companies already retain the data but for varying durations and in an unregulated environment.

The Coalition and Labor have argued the laws were necessary to help authorities in counter-terrorism and serious crime investigations.

Both major parties knocked back several amendments put forward by the Greens and concerned crossbenchers during Senate deliberations.

Labor announced last week that it would vote with the Coalition after the two parties agreed to several amendments, including specific protections for the phone and internet records of journalists, in a bid to protect anonymous sources and whistleblowers.

The Greens argued strongly against the law, saying it would entrench “passive, mass surveillance”.

Senators Nick Xenophon and David Leyonhjelm had also sought to change the legislation to increase privacy protections.

But Attorney-General George Brandis said the legislation, which passed with 43 votes to 16, would strike the right balance.

“It does contain safeguards that were not there before, it is in the Government’s view, shared I’m pleased to say by the Opposition, a measured and proportionate response,” he said.

The cost of retaining the information is set to be partly covered by the taxpayer in what the Government described as a “significant” contribution.

There are concerns telecommunications companies will pass on the rest of the cost to consumers.

 A version of this story was originally published on and has been republished with full permission.

11. Companies banning emails so employees talk to each other.

For many of us they are an essential part of working life – but some companies are increasingly seeing emails as a time waster and a source of stress.

Fairfax Media reports that several Australian companies have started banning internal and external emails.

Brisbane based facilities management services provider Talio has banned emails between employees to promote more face-to-face communication.

Director Nathan Schokker said “My staff are very energetic and tech savvy, being part of a start up. People were emailing on weekends, public holidays and any day of the week with ideas. While the ideas were good, it was starting to get tiresome,” he said.

“People felt compelled to respond and we found confusion and implied tones of voice became irritating and bred a bit of conflict between people.”

“We had a dispute with a client once and it erupted over email. I went to see them and said the same thing to them from the emails word for word and it solved the issue. Emails lead to a lot finger pointing,” he said.

also quote Toowoomba training business, Fortress Learning which has banned employees from reading emails during their leave.

Employees who do take a sneaky peak are disciplined.

 12. Grade 6 girls told wearing leggings could lead to boys touching their bums.

Schoolgirls in Canada have been told not to wear leggings because it might lead to boys touching their “cute little bums.”

CJAD reports that the 11-year old girls were specifically kept in at recess and addressed about puberty and boys. As a part of the demonstration several girls were called to the front to demonstrate how not to wear leggings.

The girls were told pairing leggings with short tops show their “cute little bums” which might encourage boys to touch them.

A father of one of the 11-year old girls told CJAD the teachers were demonstrating victim-blaming.

“The issue at hand is that teachers told an entire grade of girls that what they wear is a deciding factor in whether or not a boy touches them inappropriately.”

The teachers told parents who complained that “the fashion industry meant for leggings to be worn under long tops.”

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