Man steals donations from Melbourne church

MELBOURNE police are hoping a man who stole church donations comes clean with a confession.

The man, who was captured on CCTV, stole the cash from two tins at a Seventh-Day Adventist church at Clayton last Sunday.

Detective Senior Constable Mick Van Der Heyden said the church was open to worshippers at the time.

"If anyone saw anything suspicious in or around the church, we would certainly be interested in speaking to them," he said.

"On the other hand, if the person responsible wants to come forward I am happy to hear his confession."

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Girl dead, men injured after plane crash

A YOUNG girl has died and two men have survived a plane crash into a northern NSW river believed to have happened after their aircraft hit power lines.

The pilot, a 50-year-old man who suffered only minor injuries, freed himself from the wreckage and called authorities seeking help for his two passengers following the crash southwest of Casino on Saturday morning, police said.

They were able to save a 39-year-old male passenger who was taken to Lismore Base Hospital by helicopter, where he remains in a serious condition.

A 12-year-old girl died at the scene.

"It's believed the aircraft hit power lines and then crashed into a nearby river," police said.

A crime scene has been established and a report will be prepared for the coroner.

The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau will investigate the cause of the crash.

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Ita to remain at category one strength

CYCLONE Ita is unlikely to drop below cyclone strength despite making landfall 19 hours ago, the Bureau of Meteorology has warned.

A cyclone warning issued at 5pm (AEST) shows Ita will remain at category one strength and will head out into the Coral Sea near Innisfail in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The bureau predicts Ita will remain at category one strength at least until 5pm (AEST) on Monday on a south-easterly track that runs roughly parallel with the Queensland coast.

Ita roared ashore about 9pm on Friday as a severe category four cyclone, forcing hundreds of people at Cooktown and nearby Hope Vale to take refuge in cyclone shelters.

At 5pm on Saturday, Ita was estimated to be 20km south-southwest of Port Douglas and 45 kilometres west-northwest of Cairns, moving south southeast at 11km/h.

It is likely to move southeast close to or just off the coast for the next 24 hours, with damaging winds with gusts to 120km/h likely between Port Douglas and Cairns for the remainder of Saturday.

A storm tide is expected between Cape Tribulation and Cairns.

Large waves may produce minor flooding along the foreshore.

Heavy rainfall that may cause flash flooding is falling in the coast and ranges between Port Douglas and Ayr, and should extend south to about Yeppoon during Sunday. Isolated 24-hour totals of more than 300mm are likely.

The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared a catastrophe in parts of north Queensland affected by Ita.

ICA chief executive officer Rob Whelan said the ICA has established a recovery taskforce and initiated a disaster hotline to help policyholders unsure of their insurer with general inquiries about claims.

"This is an emerging natural disaster situation and the full extent of the damage may take many weeks to determine. However, the general insurance industry has already geared up to ensure it responds swiftly and appropriately," he said.

The ICA hotline is 1800 734 621.

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Bureaucrat warned about batts evidence

A senior bureaucrat has told an inquiry he warned superiors the home insulation scheme wasn't safe. Source: AAP

A RUDD government bureaucrat has been warned against giving false or misleading evidence at the royal commission into the troubled pink batts scheme.

Will Kimber, a former assistant director in the home insulation policy team who says he repeatedly flagged installer safety risks to his superiors, received the warning when he resumed his evidence on Thursday afternoon.

Counsel Assisting Keith Wilson said Mr Kimber should be reminded about his obligations under the Royal Commissions Act given his "lack of recollection" about matters earlier in the day.

Commissioner Ian Hanger QC said: "Mr Kimber there is some concern about some of the evidence you're giving as to whether it's reliable or not."

Mr Kimber said he understood it was an offence for a witness to knowingly give false or misleading evidence at a royal commission.

The offence carries a penalty of up to five years imprisonment or a fine as large as $20,000.

Earlier on Thursday, Mr Hanger cautioned Mr Kimber about the "very serious" evidence he was giving.

"Be careful to be accurate," Mr Hanger said.

Mr Kimber had told the inquiry that he repeatedly warned his superiors about installer safety risks in the home insulation program before the deaths of four workers.

Queenslanders Matthew Fuller, Rueben Barnes, Mitchell Sweeney, and Marcus Wilson from NSW, lost their lives working under the stimulus scheme rolled out on July 1 2009.

Mr Kimber said he had been worried about installers using metal staples to secure foil insulation, a dangerous practice linked to three New Zealand deaths in 2007.

Mr Fuller, 25, was electrocuted doing that on October 14, 2009.

Mr Wilson asked why the use of foil wasn't immediately suspended after Mr Fuller's death.

"I can't say way it was done, only that I made representations to that effect including before the death happened and that practice continued," Mr Kimber said.

The government should have taken "time out" from the program because of the risk of further deaths and fires, he said.

Mr Kimber said throughout 2009 he raised concerns about the program with his superiors, including environment department assistant secretary Kevin Keeffe, both privately and via email.

However the royal commission does not have copies of those emails.

Mr Hanger warned Mr Kimber to be careful not to put the commonwealth lawyer onto a chain of emails that didn't exist.

But Mr Kimber maintained he sent the emails, although he couldn't be precise about their content.

The Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) will conduct a search for the emails.

The inquiry resumes on Friday.

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Bigot? Snob? Not me, says Carr

A Labor frontbencher believes it was a mistake to recruit Bob Carr (pic) to federal parliament. Source: AAP

WHATEVER you think of Bob Carr - snob, bigot, high-flyer, avid organic oats eater - don't accuse him of being shy.

Revelations in his tell-all Diary of a Foreign Minister has prompted mirth and scorn, especially from less-than-impressed Labor colleagues.

Mr Carr insists his breakfast oats are steel-cut, moans about airline food and the rules that limit him to business class when flying overseas.

First Class Tosser was how one metro daily newspaper described him, emblazoning the title across its front page on Thursday.

It prompted an unrepentant Mr Carr to deny he was a snob.

The tome was intended to show Australians how government worked, he said - an observation largely unappreciated by others in the Labor Party.

Michael Danby accused Mr Carr of being a bigot over claims the pro-Israel lobby had an "unhealthy" level of influence over the Gillard government.

The federal MP said it had been a mistake to parachute Mr Carr from "obscurity" into a Senate vacancy and with the foreign affairs portfolio to boot.

Mr Carr responded to the bigot accusation by citing a record of supporting Israeli causes.

However, there was one description the former NSW premier was prepared to accept.

"You're not going to get into any position of leadership if you're a shy person," he said about his assertion that he had more energy than 16 gladiators.

Whatever, Mr Carr reckons if you haven't got a sense of humour then you shouldn't crack open his book.

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Father of missing girl distraught

A frantic search has begun for a three-year-old girl feared abducted from her south Queensland home. Source: AAP

THE father of missing three-year-old Chloe Campbell believes someone who knows the family took her.

Garth Campbell says there is no way his youngest daughter could have left their family home alone.

When he awoke on Thursday morning, Chloe, who usually sleeps in the lounge, was missing.

A window was open and when he looked out, an adult-sized footprint was on the car.

Chloe's sleeping bag - patterned with wizards and dragons - was gone as well as her trusty companion, a stuffed toy dog named Gnarly.

"I don't think there's any possible way she's wandered off," Mr Campbell told AAP.

"She wouldn't leave the yard by herself."

The family usually shuts the windows of their Childers' home at dusk each night to keep out mosquitoes, but on Wednesday Mr Campbell believes one of the latches must not have caught.

"That's why we are blaming ourselves," he said.

Chloe's two older sisters Janae, eight, and Britney, five, have their own room in the two-bedroom Childers house.

But on Wednesday all three girls slept in the lounge.

When Janae awoke to go to the toilet in the morning, Chloe wasn't in the lounge room, Mr Campbell said.

Janae had thought Chloe had sneaked into her parent's room as she had been sick lately.

A distraught Mr Campbell believes that someone who knew where Chloe slept took her.

"I think it's got to be someone who knows me, in how they got in, where she sleeps," Mr Campbell said.

"They knew she was sleeping in front of the TV."

Mr Campbell is asking for prayers and is clinging to hope that if Chloe's been abducted, she is being cared for.

"I hope someone that's taken her is looking after her," he said.

"Giving her brekky, lunch, I don't know, I don't know what to think.

"Maybe someone took her who can't have kids or something like that."

Mother Tammy Campbell reported Chloe missing at 7am Thursday.

A major land and air search is underway and will go into the night.

Police tape has been placed around the house and the nearby showground is being searched.

"We hold very serious concerns for the safety for the little girl, as we do for every missing person reported," Inspector Kevin Gutteridge said.

Childers, about a half hour drive southwest of Bundaberg, has a population of less than 1500.

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Bob Carr laments first world problems

FORMER foreign minister Bob Carr likes his breakfast oats steel-cut and his Wagner opera to carry English subtitles.

So his latest book - Diary of a Foreign Minister - could well be subtitled First World Problems.

If the first insights into its contents are any sign, it should be a hoot - especially for frequent flyers.

NewSouth Publishing describes the book - due to hit the bookshelves at the end of April - as the "best picture ever published of a politician on the world stage and Australia's changing place in the world and in our region".

But it is also expected to reveal Bob Carr's multi-faceted personality - eccentric, obsessive, passionate and self-deprecating.

The faults and foibles of air travel feature heavily, according to reports.

In the book Mr Carr publishes a letter from Singapore Airlines responding to complaints he made about inflight entertainment.

"Please accept my sincere apology if any part of our First Class inflight offering fell below your expectations," the letter says.

"Specifically, I have taken note of the lack of English subtitles for the Wagner Opera Siegfried."

The former minister rails against business class travel: "No edible food. No airline pyjamas. I lie in my tailored suit."

On another flight, he blasts the airline for its "ceramic food" and seat design that "owe a lot to the trans-Atlantic slave trade".

On his diet and exercise regime, Mr Carr reveals his favoured breakfast is steel-cut organic oats and berries and two poached eggs.

And his favourite exercise is the "wonderful one-legged Romanian deadlift".

The book will retail at about $50 with proceeds going to Interplast Australia and New Zealand, a not-for-profit organisation which funds and delivers reconstructive surgery on poor children in developing countries.

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Union labels inquiry a witch-hunt

Royal commission hearings into the unions will begin in Sydney before a former High Court judge. Source: AAP

A ROYAL commission into trade union governance, slush funds and corruption is nothing more than a witch-hunt and taxpayers will be better served if more money went to enforcing existing laws, unions say.

The royal commission into trade union governance started in Sydney on Wednesday, with commissioner Dyson Heydon saying the inquiry's both broad and restrictive terms of reference will probe the facts behind a range of union practices.

Justice Heydon says the commission does not want to see unions abolished or curbed into insignificance.

But Australia's leading union body has branded the move a witch-hunt, and accused Prime Minister Tony Abbott of delivering on a political agenda to damage and weaken the union movement's role in Australian society.

"The Royal Commission has been designed to tie unions up in a long and expensive inquiry that will ultimately make it harder for them to represent their members," ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said in a statement.

"The terms of reference released by Prime Minister Tony Abbott show the narrow focus of the Royal Commission is to smear and damage unions rather than get to the bottom of any genuine issues of corruption."

Justice Heydon said the inquiry rests on assumptions which are not hostile to trade unions.

"The terms of reference do not assume that it is desirable to abolish trade unions," the former High Court justice said in his opening remarks at Wednesday's preliminary hearing.

"They do not assume that it is desirable to curb their role to the point of insignificance.

"Instead, they assume it is worth inquiring into how well and how lawfully that role is performed."

The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU) has pledged to cooperate fully with the Royal Commission.

But the union says taxpayer dollars would be better spent on enforcing existing laws.

"Our members are concerned that the current Royal Commission is driven by politics, rather than a genuine desire to assist working people to eradicate criminal elements from Australian workplaces," the CEPU said in a statement.

"The CEPU believes there are already appropriate laws in place, and that state and federal police are the appropriate agencies for identifying and prosecuting cases of criminal behaviour."

The Health Services Union (HSU), Australian Workers Union and the Transport Workers Union will also be the focus of the inquiry.

Master Builders Association chief executive Wilhelm Harnisch says he hopes the inquiry will lead to changes in union practices and worker productivity, as occurred following the 2001 Cole royal commission.

Former federal Labor ministers Simon Crean and Martin Ferguson, one-time presidents of the ACTU, have also called for sections of the union movement to get their house in order.

Counsel assisting the commission Jeremy Stoljar SC said the inquiry would look into slush funds, the legal structures of which could be "infinitely various".

The inquiry's final report is due by December 31.

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David Jones: Under new management, almost

David Jones will remain a fixture of the Australian retail scene says its new overseas buyers. Source: AAP

THE Scotsman in charge of the South African company aiming to buy David Jones wanted to reassure Australians that they're not losing yet another local icon to overseas hands.

"Don't be despondent, we're not taking David Jones anywhere," Ian Moir, chief executive of Woolworths Holdings said.

"We've just paid $2.1 billion for it - we love it to death.

"We'll be looking after it like it's our own."

South Africa's Woolworths - which is unrelated to Australia's supermarket group of the same name - surprised almost everyone on Wednesday with a $4 a share takeover bid that has the full support of the David Jones board.

If shareholders of both companies approve the deal, David Jones will be foreign-owned by July, in the process making Woolworths one of the world's 10 biggest department store operators.

In name at least, DJs will not change but Mr Moir has signalled there will be a big increase in upmarket private label clothing, possibly sourced from Woolworths' own facilities, including Chinese factories, where it already makes products for its South African stores.

"David Jones is one of the most recognised brands in this country - why wouldn't you capitalise on that," he said.

Private label clothes have delivered fatter profits to Woolworths because of the bigger margin the retailer receives.

Along with improved online operations and customer loyalty programs, those private label clothes are supposed to help meet the ambitious $130 million-a-year increase in pre-tax earnings Mr Moir says he can deliver at DJs within five years.

Commonwealth Bank retail analyst Andrew McLennan said the target was "quite a big number", considering DJs' forecast earnings before tax for the current year are $141 million.

David Jones chief executive Paul Zahra - who only recently unwound a decision to leave the company - is another feature that evidently won't change.

Mr Moir said he has met with Mr Zahra once and he liked the local CEO and his handling of DJs.

"We don't own the business yet - when we do we'll speak with Paul straight away," he said.

Woolworths' formal wooing of David Jones began in March with a phone call from Mr Moir to David Jones chairman Gordon Cairns but the South Africans had been eyeing their target for much longer.

They had looked at all potential Australian candidates - Myer included - and even checked out options in Brazil but none offered the fit that David Jones did.

One benefit was the "big Southern Hemisphere advantage" of shared seasons - a crucial factor in fashion lines - and the other was scale.

Mr Cairns said scale is the only defence in an environment where spending is tight and big Northern Hemisphere stores and lower-end retailers are squeezing department stores in a pincer movement.

Mr Cairns said the response from David Jones' major investors has been "almost universally positive" because the deal offers a significant premium and has the attraction of being all-cash.

Woolworths' $4 offer represents a 25.4 percent premium to the April 8 closing price of $3.19.

The Commonwealth Bank's Mr McLennan said the deal makes "a lot of sense" and David Jones shareholders were getting a significant premium, even after stripping out the value of the company's property holdings.

However Mr McLennan said there was still room for another bidder to pay more for DJs - meaning that, even after Myer's formal withdrawal of its bid on Wednesday, the battle for the grand old retailer may not yet be over.

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Firms fret over Hockey's budget intention

AS Joe Hockey jets off to the US to get the international vibe ahead of his first budget, businesses are fretting over how tough the treasurer will be in repairing the nation's finances.

In Washington, Mr Hockey will chair his second meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers under Australia's 2014 presidency.

At his first gathering in February, members from the world's biggest economies struck an unprecedented agreement to lift global economic growth by two per cent over current projections during the next five years.

Mr Hockey hopes to get an update of the kinds of reforms they are considering to boost growth and create jobs.

The discussions this week were key as world economies experience low rates of growth and as many governments grapple with ways to stimulate their economies with limited fiscal stimulus at their disposal, he said.

The meeting will also discuss the next step on the path to reform of the International Monetary Fund.

Mr Hockey will also attend the IMF and World Bank spring meetings.

The trip is timely as it will provide an important international element for the treasurer as he forms his May 13 budget.

The government has said that it will need to take hard decisions to get the budget on a more sustainable footing.

Such warnings appear to have unsettled business confidence.

The National Australia Bank's monthly business survey showed confidence fell below its long-term trend and lowest level since the September 2013 election.

NAB chief economist Alan Oster says firms appear to be responding to the continued sluggishness in business activity which did not match their exuberance following the election.

A "stubbornly" high Australian dollar, uncertainty over the global economy and the potential for significant belt tightening in the budget all could have contributed as well, he said.

Notably, confidence among mining companies was "deeply negative".

NAB's confidence index fell to four points from seven points, and while the conditions index rose from zero to one point, it still pointed to a further sluggish recovery.

Forward orders still pointed to a soft outlook, and a six point increase in the employment index to minus one suggested further increases in unemployment.

NAB continues to expect sub-trend economic growth of 2.7 per cent in 2013/14 and a jobless rate of 6.5 per cent by late 2014.

JP Morgan economist Ben Jarman was not surprised by the survey results.

"We have been critical of the idea that the election-related bounce in confidence would hold, or turn into anything meaningful," he said, citing structural headwinds facing the economy and little changing on the policy front.

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We are stopping Santos: Pilliga protesters

PROTESTERS campaigning against a coal seam gas project in northwestern NSW say they've halted the operations of energy giant Santos for a fifth straight day.

Santos is currently undertaking preparatory work in the Pilliga forest, but demonstrators say coal seam gas projects will pollute the landscape and threaten the livelihoods of local farmers.

Laura Hartley, who attached herself to a rig truck within a drill site, says the community has united against the project.

"We are not going to let Santos trash our landscape with industrial gas fields," Dr Hartley said.

"We have resolved to do what it takes to ensure our region is protected."

Third-generation farmer Brett Sanders, from nearby Tambar Springs, said he'd be "stuffed" if the aquifers were contaminated by coal seam gas extraction.

"The water of my farm (has) been in the family for 54 years. We're totally dependent on a spring-fed creek and bore water," he said.

Both have since been arrested, Lock the Gate Alliance spokeswoman Georgina Woods told AAP.

She said protesters successfully stalled operations over the weekend - including a grandmother attaching herself to a truck as it entered the site.

Six local farmers entered a drilling site and blockaded it for seven hours, she said, adding such tactics were just "the tip of the iceberg".

"More and more people have realised that the government is not going to look after the groundwater, and that they'll have to do it themselves," she said.

A Santos spokesman said the protesters' efforts hadn't taken a toll on operations.

"Certainly over the last five days there have been a couple of occasions of people attaching themselves to vehicles, but nothing considerable," he said.

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Woman killed in Vic collision

A WOMAN has been killed in a collision between a car and a truck in wet conditions in Melbourne.

Police said the woman died at the scene following the crash on Tuesday afternoon at Doreen, northeast of Melbourne.

It was not clear if the truck driver was injured.

Victoria's road toll stands at 74, eight more than at the same time last year.

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Man arrested over Collombet case

THE man wanted for questioning over the brutal murder of French student Sophie Collombet has been arrested.

Benjamin James Milward, 25, was taken into custody in the northern NSW town of Coffs Harbour on Monday afternoon and Queensland police are expected to seek extradition on Tuesday.

Ms Collombet's naked and battered body was found by an early morning jogger in a park on the banks of the Brisbane River two Fridays ago.

The 21-year-old Griffith University business student was on her way home after a night class when she was attacked.

While police haven't named Mr Milward as a suspect, he is a "person of interest".

The itinerant was known to frequent the South Brisbane park where Ms Collombet died and was captured by CCTV on the night of the attack.

His aunty Tere Douglas is desperate to hear from him.

"You've got a family here who will support you all the way," Ms Douglas told Network 10.

"We're not going to let you be out there by yourself.

"But you haven't been guilty of anything yet Ben, and we need to sort that out."

Mr Milward is due to appear in the Coffs Harbour Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

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Firm donated $5000 to meet Newman: ICAC

Australian Water Holdings donated $5000 in 2007 to meet Campbell Newman, an inquiry has heard. Source: AAP

AN Obeid-linked company paid out $5000 to secure a meeting with Queensland Premier Campbell Newman when he was lord mayor of Brisbane, a NSW corruption inquiry has heard.

But Mr Newman's office on Monday said he personally did not solicit cash for access.

"There was a price on meeting Campbell Newman," counsel assisting the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Geoffrey Watson SC, put to NSW Liberal Party fundraiser and lobbyist Paul Nicolaou.

"Yes, if you look at it that way," Mr Nicolaou replied.

The ICAC is investigating claims infrastructure company Australian Water Holdings (AWH), which has been linked to former Labor MP Eddie Obeid's family, corruptly billed Sydney Water for limousine rides, luxury hotel stays and lavish salaries.

The inquiry has heard AWH and a related firm, Australian Water Pty Ltd, paid $225,000 to Mr Nicolaou's SolutionsRUs.

Mr Watson has told the inquiry there is hard and fast evidence the money was charged back to Sydney Water - yet investigators have been unable to find "a shred of paper" justifying the payments.

Mr Nicolaou said his work involved providing advice and opening doors, including in Brisbane, where he arranged a meeting between former AWH chief executive Nick Di Girolamo and Mr Newman in the lead-up to his re-election as lord mayor.

"The Lord Mayor of Brisbane is happy to see you. The person whom I am liaising with on your behalf would like you to donate the $5k as soon as possible," he wrote in one 2007 email to Mr Di Girolamo.

Documents show Australian Water made a $5000 donation to Mr Newman's lord mayoral campaign fundraising vehicle in June that year.

"Mr Newman had a price. He would meet Di Girolamo if Di Girolamo paid $5000, correct?" Mr Watson asked.

"Correct," Mr Nicolaou replied.

A spokeswoman for Mr Newman told AAP the premier never asked for money to go towards his re-election, nor was it his habit to do so.

Mr Nicolaou also gave evidence that he was executive chairman of a NSW Liberal Party fundraising body, the Millennium Forum, and had an office at the party's headquarters, which former AWH chairman Arthur Sinodinos would visit weekly in his role as party treasurer.

But he never mentioned that Mr Sinodinos's company had him on a $5500 monthly retainer.

"Why, in four years, a period over which you pocketed $225,000 why didn't you mention, gee Arthur, thanks for the money? Why wouldn't you say that?" Mr Watson asked.

"It didn't cross my mind to say that," Mr Nicolaou replied.

The commission heard from former NSW planning minister Tony Kelly's chief of staff Laurie Brown, whose diary notes indicate he was involved in multiple discussions involving AWH.

It has been alleged a cabinet minute calling for the government to reject a proposed partnership with AWH was submitted to Mr Kelly's office, but that the document Mr Kelly later submitted to cabinet - twice - reversed that recommendation.

Mr Brown told the inquiry he could only recall having one conversation with Mr Di Girolamo but phone records reveal the pair had at least six conversations in March 2010 alone.

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Terrorist Bashir 'wants elections bombed'

SUSPECTED Bali bombing mastermind Abu Bakar Bashir has encouraged his supporters to attack this week's Indonesian legislative elections, according to a report.

The convicted terrorist has asked supporters not to be "unproductive" and to disrupt the polls, to be held on Wednesday, Police Lieutenant Colonel Adi Deriyan Jayamarta told Indonesia's Kompas news website.

He says police have already been warned by Indonesia's anti-terror forces that a terrorist network could be planning an attack.

The police chief, based in Malang, East Java, has ordered officers to stay in communication with religious leaders and approach any suspicious object with care, especially near polling stations.

"There's expert personnel who will handle it," he said on Monday.

"Don't think that you have some kind of 'blast-free magic' and handle it yourself."

According to Lt Col Adi, Detachment 88, Indonesia's counter-terror squad, had information from a terror suspect involved with a network "that has done military training for firearm and bomb usage".

Bashir, the founder of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), is serving 15 years in Nusa Kambangan, a high-security jail off the coast of central Java dubbed the Alcatraz of Indonesia.

He was acquitted over the 2002 Bali bombings, but was jailed over his role in setting up a terror cell in Aceh.

Indonesia's counter-terrorism agency chief in 2012 told AAP Bashir was still giving orders from behind bars, albeit to a group with a different name, but the same radical ideology as JI.

The bombing of two Kuta nightclubs in 2002 killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

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