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ASIO resists scrutiny on passport cancellations
As Australia’s lead spy agency grows in size and powers, a crack in the legal system shows how it operates and cannot be challenged.
March 22-28, 2014
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FAME
“They are currently rolling out repeats. No one until right now has noticed.’’
The television host talks openly on the cancellation of his afternoon game show, Deal or No Deal.
INSULATION
“So you were asked to cost this over two days, not tell your colleagues and not contact industry?”
Counsel assisting the royal commission into the pink batts program asks about the weekend planning of a $2.8 billion scheme that was blamed for four deaths and hundreds of house fires. Department of Environment assistant secretary Mary Wiley-Smith was succinct in her reply: “Correct.”
AVIATION
“This is an enormous search area.”
Malaysia’s acting transport minister announces the area being scoured for missing flight MH370 now reaches to 7.7 million square kilometres (2.24 million square nautical miles) – a footprint roughly the size of Australia.
SPORT
“Messi makes me realise how shit I was.”
England’s second-highest goal scorer describes the feeling of watching the Argentinian soccer wizard.
CELEBRITY
‘‘We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves.”
The Rolling Stones’ frontman responds to the apparent suicide of his partner, the designer and model L’Wren Scott. The band cancelled their Australian tour in the wake of her death.
