1. Manus Island review
An independent review into riots that took place at the Manus Island detention centre in PNG on February 16-18 this year has found that a Salvation Army worker allegedly fatally attacked Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati.
The review found that protests exploded into fatal violence after months of tension between the mainly Iranian asylum seekers and the PNG nationals working there.
The Salvation Army worker is expected to be charged in PNG.
The report by former secretary of the Attorney-General’s department, Robert Cornall, says asylum seekers felt “anger and frustration at the former Labor government’s permanent resettlement plan, which meant they would never make it to Australia, led to the violent protests.”
2. Jamie Gao investigation
UPDATE:
Disgraced former police officer Roger Rogerson has been arrested and charged with murder and will spend the night behind bars, Yahoo News reports.
The charge relates to the body found floating yesterday off Cronulla Beach, which was today formally identified as that of 20-year-old UTS student Jamie Gao.
Rogerson, 73, was arrested at his Sydney home after returning from Queensland today, and appeared briefly for a mention at Bankstown Local Court on Tuesday.
He is next due to appear before Central Local Court on July 22.
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correction; as of this afternoon, police have formally identified the recovered body, but I note you posted this update at 6.30am this morning, when no such identification had occured.
Fair enough some women like to go sans undies. But with the worlds media following your every footstep? No undies? Very strange.
I assumed it was a gstring, rather than no undies entirely. I looked up the photo and she could easily still be wearing a gstring.
Probably a g-string, rather than no undies