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Homes across Melbourne have been raided and arrests made in a joint counter-terrorism operation reportedly targeting Islamic suicide bombers.
Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police swooped on homes in Glenroy, Carlton, Meadow Heights, Roxburgh Park, Broadmeadows, Westmeadows, Preston, Epping and Colac at about 4.
More than 400 officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Victoria Police, NSW Police, the NSW Crime Commission and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) were involved in the operation.30am earlier today, executing19 search warrants.
Police have set up a crime scene at the corner of View and Glen streets, Glenroy, in Melbourne’s north.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said there had been a number of arrests, butwould not say how many.
It said the raids involved a suspected terrorist cell of Australian nationals of Somali and Lebanese backgrounds.
The Australian newspaper earlier today reported that national security agencies had uncovered a plot by Islamic extremists to launch a suicide attack on an Australian army base, which was understood to be Holsworthy Barracks on Sydney’s western outskirts.
It also said the cell had been inspired by the Somalia-based terrorist movement al-Shabaab, which had connections with al-Qaeda.
The report said members of the group had been observed carrying out surveillance at the army base and other suspicious activity around defence bases in Victoria.
“It is understood the men plan to kill as many soldiers as possible before they are themselves killed.
“Authorities believe the group is at an advanced stage of preparing to storm an Australian army base, using automatic weapons, as punishment for Australia’s military involvment in Muslim countries, ” the Australian said in its unsourced report.
An AFP spokeswoman earlier today confirmed its officers had joined the raids.”
The investigation, dubbed Operation Health, involving 150 members of the AFP, Victoria Police and ASIO, was launched in January, the report said.
The spokeswoman said more information would be available later earlier today.
”The AFP and Victoria Police can confirm the execution of a number of search warrants earlier today as part of a joint counter-terrorism operation,” she said. .
She was unable to confirm the News Ltd report
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A snowboarder caught in an avalanche near Coronet Peak skifield in the South Island this afternoon has died.
The man was found unconscious around 7pm – more than two hours after the slip – and medical staff attempted to resuscitate him.10pm but was unable to be revived. He was airlifted to Queenstown Lakes District Hospital at around 8.40pm, mobilising rescue and emergency services, including ski patrols from nearby skifields, an alpine cliff rescue team and dogs.
A companion, believed to be a family member, sounded the alarm shortly after the avalanche at 4. Rescuers had to dig two and half metres through snow to recover him.The man was located using an electronic search device approximately two hours after the avalanche, police said.
Police said two snowboarders, including the deceased man, had been in the area of the avalanche, known as Dirty Four Creek.
He was the second person to die in an avalanche in the South Island’s mountains in just over a week.5 avalanche. It was graded a class 2.
The death will be referred to the coroner, police said.
NZSki, which operates the skifield, said the avalanche happened outside its boundaries.”The Mountain Safety Council recommends staying out of the backcountry in these circumstances,” said the council’s Acting Avalanche Programme Manager, Gordon Smith.
The NZ Mountain Safety Council says the Queenstown region has been at a high avalanche danger for the past 12 days. The avalanche danger remains high and with the weather forecast predicting more heavy snowfalls for the Southern Alps over the coming days, the avalanche danger, if anything, may increase,” Mr Smith said. .
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On July 24 a large avalanche in the Southern Alps’ Rugged Range killed an Australian heli-skier and temporarily buried two others
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Killers will lose the right to claim provocation as a defence after murderer Clayton Weatherston’s attempt to smear his victim.
It is understood Justice Minister Simon Power wants the controversial defence scrapped as soon as possible and will announce his intentions today.
Weatherston, 33, was found guilty in the High Court at Christchurch yesterday of murdering his former girlfriend Sophie Elliott, 22.
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He said he was provoked by their tumultuous relationship and because she had attacked him with a pair of scissors.
He had admitted inflicting 216 stab and cutting wounds on her in the bedroom of her Dunedin home on January 9 last year, but pleaded not guilty to murder.
“There was no provocation in this case, no provocation from Sophie,” her father, Gil, said. .. “That was all fabricated . She didn’t have time to provoke him..
“We’ve thought about it a lot over the last few weeks – probably there’s not … very many murders where provocation is justified but however, in our society it’s never justified – thou shalt not kill and that’s the bottom line.”
Her mother, Lesley, told Radio New Zealand that said she believed there was no room in the legal system for provocation.
“As far as we were concerned, up until the trial, provocation hadn’t really been mentioned – if it had been it certainly wasn’t a massive issue.”
She said they were surprised at accusations that Sophie had made the first attack on her killer.
“[Sophie] doesn’t have another chance and I don’t see why he should.”
Mrs Elliott told Radio New Zealand she didn’t believe in capital punishment but thought Weatherston should spend his life in prison.”
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“I’ve struggled… a lot over the last year with… forgiveness and I will never be able to forgive him for what he’s done
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Wild weekend weather continued to cause havoc today with part of State Highway 10 in the Far North collapsing under the weight of a major landslide.
Police were alerted to the slip when a truck close toly rolled off the road about 6am, Senior Sergeant Shane Mulcahy of northern police communications said.
Drivers in Otago and South Canterbury were being warned to take care this morning as black ice made travelling treacherous.
The highway was now closed and roading authorities were making their way to the scene.
The MetService has also issued a snow warning for the Rimutaka Hill Rd north of Wellington.
Snow and ice also closed SH1 at the Desert Road, and a snow warning remained in place. However there was still expected to be icy patches on the Desert Rd.
It said light snow was possible this morning on both roads but said little if any snow was expected to accumulate.
The deep low that brought the severe weather was expected to move slowly away from the country this morning, the MetService said. .
A strong wind warning has also been lifted for eastern parts of the Bay of Plenty, with gales easing though gusty southerlies expected to ease during the day.
It has since lifted a heavy rain warning Gisborne, with only around 25mm of rain expected by midnight.
Gusty southerlies which have buffeted Taupo are to settle gradually while heavy rain is no longer predicted in Napier.
The weather is also expected to ease around Taupo and Hawke’s Bay.
GIRL KILLED
The severe weather claimed the life of 15-year-old Danielle Anne Finlayson, who was killed early yesterday morning when a tree fell on a caravan she was sleeping in, at her home in Whangapara, 23km northwest of Whangarei.
However, rain is still forecast to fall in the ranges north of Napier.
Danielle was with two friends when the incident happened at 12.
Authorities who rushed to the scene said the incident could have resulted in a triple fatality.
Veteran volunteer fire brigade chief Snow Buckton told The New Zealand Herald it appeared a branch from a large puriri tree crashed into the caravan where Danielle was sleeping after the tree and a tree hut were blown over.50am.
“I was thinking how lucky, I suppose, if you want to call it that, that we didn’t go to a triple fatality,” he said. Danielle was crushed under the branch and died almost immediately but the two friends escaped. There was nothing we could do to help save her,” he said.
“Obviously the family, (on our) arrival, were quite devastated.
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Lawyers for John Campbell and four other TV3 staff today argued in court they should not be summonsed as witnesses in a possible trial of two men charged with stealing bravery medals from the Waiouru Army Museum.
Police want the High Court to compel Campbell and fellow journalists Ingrid Leary, Carol Hirschfeld, Hannah Story and Zoe Duffy to reveal the identity of an informant they interviewed in February 2008, around the time that 96 medals stolen from the museum in December 2007 were returned.
Today’s hearing before chief high court judge Tony Randerson debated the application of a law which means journalists do not have to reveal their sources, unless there was a clear public interest.
The interview, in which an informant confessed to being involved in the burglary, was subsequently re-shot and broadcast with an actor delivering the lines.
Journalists had an important public watchdog role and that included talking to people who had important information to reveal but who would feel compromised if their identity was revealed, he said. .
As a fallback position, Mr Miles said the testimony was not necessary as prosecutors already had enough information to put the accused before a court.
Forcing the TV3 staff to testify would have a chilling effect, stopping people in such cases in future coming forward with important information, Mr Miles said.”
Mr Miles rejected suggestions the law was more to protect whistleblowers who went to media rather than people who may be admitting to a crime, saying the right to protect sources should only be overturned in extremely serious cases.
“If the Crown already has a case it thinks is good enough to put before a jury, it doesn’t need this top-up.
“This is not a case where the media is carrying out the function of being public watchdog, which is reason we have this protection in the first place,” he said.
But police lawyer Lance Rowe disagreed, saying the law was put in place to protect whistleblowers more than any other groups.
He said that under the law journalists could never promise absolute confidentiality to a source “unless they’re also promising to go to prison for contempt of court”.
“What is it exactly that’s being protected here?”
Mr Rowe said that the revealing of the identity of the person TV3 interviewed could play a major part in the prosecution and was therefore in the public interest.
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Mr Miles said TV3 was prepared to hand over transcripts of both the original interview with the informant and of the “interview” with the actor that was eventually broadcast
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Slippery fugitive William Stewart is styling himself “Billy the Hunted One” and appears to be enjoying his new-found notoriety.
A Teddington farmer, whose property was broken into by the 47-year-old, showed Stewart’s table-top calling card yesterday.
Stewart, who broke into the farm’s smoko room and helped himself to a meal the weekend before last, had carved his thanks into the dining table.
Stewart has been on the run since early February.
“Thanks guys, Billy the Hunted One,” he wrote.
He has five warrants for his arrest and is thought to have committed a string of burglaries and car thefts while on the run.
He has not been seen since he picked up hitchhikers in Hororata more than a week ago.
Police believed his latest crime was to swap a stolen car for a 2008 Hilux in Waddington, central Canterbury, on Tuesday.
“He helped himself to a nice meal of hot pies and coffee and wrote a thank-you note carved into the table.
The Teddington farmer, who declined to be named, said Stewart had been “sleeping rough” in the hills towards Gebbies Pass behind the property before he ventured down to the farm’s sheds.
“It was more that he had been watching and seeing where the keys were kept,” the farmer said.”
The fact that the door had not been forced but was opened using keys hidden on the property was unnerving.
The farmer said it was clear Stewart was “having a lot of fun and games”.
After carving his thanks, Stewart stole one of the farm motorbikes and blasted through a police cordon towards Governors Bay early on March 22.
However, police had called his antics “silly”.
However, police had called his antics “silly”. .
The Teddington farmer said Stewart, who had popped up in Tai Tapu the following day he evaded police in Governors Bay, obviously had some bushcraft skills as it was a long hike over the hills
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Packaging linked to drug mixups
By REBECCA PALMER Wednesday, 25 February 2009
"Look-alike" drugs with similar packaging are contributing to medication mixups in hospitals, a report says.
Twenty-one hospital patients fell victim to serious errors involving drugs last year, the latest report on serious and sentinel events from a ministerial advisory body shows. Medical workers were also grappling with a greater range of medications, some of them "very potent".
Quality improvement committee member Mary Seddon said New Zealand had no national organisation monitoring "look-alike, sound-alike drugs".
Dr Seddon said district health boards were working on moves to cut medication errors, including standardised medication charts, automatic drug dispensing machines and electronic prescribing. Though medication errors were "quite common", most were "mild and fleeting"."
The committee's report found that more than half the 21 serious errors were overdoses or wrong doses. "As we know, doctors have poor handwriting."
In one incident, a patient was given 200 milligrams of a long-acting morphine called M-Eslon 10 times the dose meant to be given. "In many cases, issues such as the similarity of packaging for different doses of the same medication contributed to the error.
A review found that, although the morphine came in five doses, all were in "look-alike" boxes and were kept together in one drug cupboard. The patient regained consciousness after being given an antidote.
Hawke's Bay District Health Board also reported a case in which "look-alike packaging" of narcotic medication contributed to a patient death.
The different doses now have to be requested for individual patients, come in individual snap-lock bags with the patient's name clearly visible, and are removed once the patient is discharged.
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Stewart Jessamine, spokesman for government drug safety agency Medsafe, said there was no committee specifically looking at the issue of naming and packaging of drugs, but it was part of Medsafe's daily work. "Sometimes we have to take it with the global brand name or we don't get the medicine at all. .
An October newsletter from the district health boards' safe and quality use of medicines group also notes incidents in which a hospital doctor had prescribed folinic acid, as part of chemotherapy treatment."
Improved systems for storing, checking and administering drugs were needed. "Folinic acid is easily mistaken for folic acid on a handwritten prescription. A community pharmacy had dispensed folic acid.co."
Were you the victim of a sentinel health error? Email us: news@dompost.nz