Japanese prosecutors want 10 years in jail for Donna Nelson, Perth grandmother accused of importing methamphetamine
Prosecutors in Japan call for an Australian grandmother accused of importing 2 kilograms of methamphetamine to be jailed for 10 years as her trial draws to a close.
Prosecutors in Japan are calling for an Australian grandmother accused of importing 2 kilograms of methamphetamine to be jailed for 10 years.
Donna Nelson was found with the drugs hidden under a false bottom of her travel case, after landing at Tokyo's Narita Airport in January last year.
She has told the court she picked up the bag in Laos for her online romantic partner, who needed it as a sample for his sprawling fashion business.
The problem is we’re a nation bound to homeowners, when each year less and less of are able to afford such a luxury as a roof over our heads.
Fuck the RBA and any “economic” wins that don’t translate to a better life for Australians.
The ABC has been a Zionist mouthpiece since Oct the 8th. It’s so digusting, I even lodged a few complaints with them over their fucked up one sided biased coverage.
I used to enjoy the ABC as a reputable source of news. Now I consider it a rag on par with news.com
Typical zionists being antisemitic and hurting Jewish people world wide by conflating them with a rogue genocidal nation lead by a wanted war criminal.
Yes a genocide you Zionist.
I don’t get how some of youse only ever post in the dailies.
You’re on the whole of Lemmy and you keep to one post. So weird.
I’m more surprised they did anything, Thales must have done something major to provoke the law to bother to look.
Virgin flight delayed after TV personality Andre Rerekura captures snake on the plane
Passengers are met with bizarre scenes as a television personality wrangles a snake onboard a plane in Western Australia’s north.
Typical Nazi Germany.
People are worried about Trump ruining America when America has already been systematically ruined for decades.
They better remember to use the bridge.
Christmas Island's red crab migration back to bumper levels after dry 2023
Millions of red crabs are emerging from their burrows and the forests of Christmas Island in what is expected to be one largest migrations in recent years.
We’re not America.
Here we say football to refer to the game where players use their feet to move an egg shaped object.
Just remember QLD is our Florida.
Australia to increase missile defence and long-range strike capability as Asia Pacific region enters ‘missile age’.
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/15050944
> Australia will increase its missile defence capability after China’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the South Pacific raised “significant concerns” and as the Asia Pacific region enters a “missile age”. > > [...] > > Australia has previously said it would spend 74 billion Australian dollars ($49bn) on missile acquisition and missile defence over the next decade, including 21 billion Australian dollars ($13.7bn) to fund the Australian Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise, a new domestic manufacturing capability. > > “We must show potential adversaries that hostile acts against Australia would not succeed and could not be sustained if conflict were protracted,” Conroy said in the speech.
Local authorities and Jewish groups urged caution in drawing conclusions about the motivation for the attack.
Probably a lot of people getting shot in Chicago, eh?
Isn’t this a good thing? If these people are given the power to enforce societal rules, they should be chosen by society.
Don’t make me start to think positively of this guy.
Israel says drone launched towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house
It is not clear if the house was hit, but a spokesperson says neither the prime minister nor his wife were home at the time.
The Israeli government says a drone has been launched at Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu's house.
In Gaza, more than 50 people have been killed in several Israeli strikes, including children, in less than 24 hours, according to hospital officials
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators have gathered in London, Paris, Rome, Manila and Cape Town urging an end to the conflict in the Middle East.
"Unfortunately, in spite of all our good will, the Israeli government does not take any notice, and they just go ahead and continue their atrocities in Gaza, now also in Lebanon and in Yemen, and also probably in Iran,"
Google and Meta should fund traditional public interest journalism, a new international study reports
Google and Meta account for 70% of digital advertising and should pay a levy to fund traditional media, according to a new report on media concentration led by researchers from several Australian universities.
Man who cable-tied hands of young children in Broome gets spent conviction and fine
Matej Radelic is given a spent conviction and a fine after being convicted of two counts of aggravated common assault, after cable-tying the hands of three children in Broome.
The incident gained national attention after a video showing two children cable-tied on Radelic's property was live streamed on social media.
Though no one was injured, the incident, involving a far-right man entering a Labor Party electorate office in Newcastle, could have been catastrophic.
ABC receives over 3,000 complaints about Israel-Gaza war coverage, David Anderson accused of ‘hiding away’
Ms Lattouf was let go by the broadcaster on December 20, just hours after sharing a social media post about the war in Gaza.
Jackson Stacker's decomposing body was found in a paddock with a knife embedded in his chest.
Reading the description of the state of his body, how they could at all think it was self inflicted is beyond me. And how can an ex-cop refuse to give evidence like that?