1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christanamio with the 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi won't say if 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: his government will make changes to parliamentary travel entitlements after 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: the travel bills of Communications Minister Arnica Wells came under 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: intense scrutiny. The PM did say his government hasn't changed 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: the rules or added anything new. Australians traveling to the 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: United States will soon need to hand over their social 8 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: media profiles, as well as DNA fingerprints and family history information. 9 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: It's all part of an overhaul of the Electronic System 10 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: for Travel Authorization or EESTA by the Department of Homeland Security, 11 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: and they say it's designed to make America a safer place. 12 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: The New South Wales Supreme Court justice who convicted former 13 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: school teacher Chris Dawson of the nineteen eighty two murder 14 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: of his wife Lynnette, is hanging up. 15 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 2: His Christopher Michael Dawson, on the charge that on are 16 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 2: about eight January nineteen eighty two, at Dayview or elsewhere 17 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 2: in the state of New South Wales, you did murder 18 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 2: Lynette Dawson. I find you guilty. 19 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: Justice Ian Harrison will wind up his duty as the 20 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: Chief Judge at common Law in the New South Wales 21 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,199 Speaker 1: Supreme Court in January, after eighteen years of service. He'll 22 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: be appointed as Acting Judge of Appeal from February. Listeners 23 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: to The Australian's investigative podcast series The Teacher's Pet and 24 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: The Teacher's Trial will remember Dawson was tried for murder 25 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: before Justice Harrison alone in twenty twenty two. The former 26 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: Newtown Jets rugby league star was convicted and subsequently sentenced 27 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: to twenty four years in prison with a non parole 28 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: period of eighteen years by the Justice. 29 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 2: I recognize that the unavoidable, unavoidable prospect is that mister 30 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 2: Dawson will probably die in jail. 31 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: Justice Harrison was formerly farewelled at a ceremony in the 32 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: Banco Court, the New South Wales Supreme Court in Sydney 33 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: on Thursday. Referring to the formal gowns and whigs donned 34 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: by justices for such occasions, Harrison quipped that his grandchildren, 35 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: who were in attendance at the ceremony along with his 36 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: wife and four children, probably thought they were at a 37 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: Santa Claus convention. After a long and successful career in 38 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: the law, first as a barrister and then as a judge. 39 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: He said he could always rely on his loved ones 40 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: to let him know if he'd decided a case correctly. 41 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: Justice Harrison said, quote, despite what the High Court might think, 42 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: in my experience, families in general and partners in particular 43 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: seemed to be the ultimate authority to whom we, as 44 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: judges must defer. Check out those stories live right now 45 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: at the Australian dot com dot a U and come 46 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: back to the front first thing in the morning.