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Australian taxpayers may have been defrauded when the infrastructure department paid $30million for land worth $3million near the Western Sydney Airport. Auditor-General Grant Hehir referred the deal to federal police earlier this year, more than two months before releasing an explosive report on the purchase. 'There was information that we found which we couldn't explain and that was suggestive of the fact that the Commonwealth may have been defrauded,' he told a Senate estimates hearing on Monday night. 'And having come to that view - as I said, we didn't have direct evidence of that - I thought it was in the public interest for me to provide information to the AFP commissioner.' Australian taxpayers may have been defrauded when the infrastructure department paid $30million for land worth $3million near the Western Sydney Airport Auditor-General Grant Hehir referred the airport land deal (pictured, aerial view of the construction) to federal police earlier thi

Australia will join three-way naval exercises involving the United States, Japan and India, the countries announced on Monday. But the move could raise concerns in China, which has criticised similar joint drills as destabilising. India, which holds the annual drills called Malabar with the U.S. and Japanese navies each year, agreed to invite Australia for next month's exercise in the Bay of Bengal, it said, in a sign of cooperation between the 'Quad' countries. The US and Japan (pictured in joint drills in 2019) will work closely with India and Australia as the four nations establish the 'Quad', a coalition of the four leading democracies in the region 'As India seeks to increase cooperation with other countries in the maritime security domain and in the light of increased defence cooperation with Australia, Malabar 2020 will see the participation of the Australian Navy,' the defence ministry said in a statement. Australia will be returning to the joint man

President Donald Trump disparaged infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci on a call with campaign staff Monday as a 'disaster,' tearing into experts as 'idiots' and saying Americans are 'tired of COVID' in comments which leaked almost instantly. Two weeks before Election Day, with coronavirus cases spiking once again, the president unloaded on Fauci, who polls have shown to be one of the nation's most trusted figures, blasting him for his virus warnings and even his public persona. With the coronavirus pandemic posing an ongoing threat to his reelection, Trump predicted victory – something he said he would not have done a few weeks ago when he was hospitalized at Walter Reed medical center with the disease. 'We're going to win. I wouldn't have told you that maybe two or three weeks ago,' he said on the leaked call.  The president vented about lockdowns and Fauci in particular, after the expert has expressed increasing frustration with the

Facebook on Monday suspended the account of a Ukrainian lawmaker who had made claims about a second laptop linked to Hunter Biden. Andrii Derkach posted to Facebook on Friday to say there is a 'second laptop' involving evidence of corruption and connected to the Bidens, The Daily Beast reported.   After suspending his account Facebook told the site in a statement: 'We removed this account and this Page for violating our policy against the use of our platform by people engaged in election-focused influence operations.'  Last week, the New York Post published emails and photographs that the outlet claimed were contained on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden. The messages suggested that Hunter had arranged for a top executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma to meet his father.  Biden's campaign and a lawyer for Hunter Biden said they had no record of such a meeting taking place. They have not addressed the authenticity of the emails.  Derkach is one of Rudy Giuliani

Fotis Dulos told his wife Jennifer that he wanted to move his mistress, Michelle Troconis, into their marital home and for them all to live together with their kids, friends of Jennifer have claimed.  According to a friend interviewed by Vanity Fair for an article on Monday, Dulos had told Jennifer he was no longer in love with her but wanted to remain a family with her and their five children.  It was 2017 and he told his wife he'd been having an affair with Michelle Troconis, the girlfriend he eventually was charged with over Jennifer's disappearance.  He told Jennifer that their family home in Jefferson Crossing, Connecticut, was big enough for them and their kids and Michelle and her daughter.  Fotis Dulos told his wife Jennifer he wanted his mistress to move into their home in Connecticut with her daughter in 2017 They fought to continue their marriage despite his affair with Troconis.  Not long afterwards, when Jennifer and Dulos came to blows again, she moved out with th

Malcolm X used to slap white girls around to get back at the white race for the discrimination that his father went through, a landmark biography of the civil rights firebrand claims. In his teens a lawless Malcolm was ‘very, very cruel to white girls’ because of the treatment of his dad Earl Little. Malcolm watched as racists firebombed his family home and grieved Earl's death aged six after he was run over by a streetcar in an incident rumored to have been a murder by a group of white supremacists. Malcolm’s friend John Davis Jr said that he took white girls’ money because they ‘can always go back to daddy to get some more’ - but he never took a dime from a black girl. The anecdotes, which Malcolm left out of his autobiography, are from new book The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by author Les Payne, the late Pulitzer Prize- winning investigative journalist, who spent nearly 30 years working on it until his death in 2018. It gives a revealing insight into the early days