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Convicted terrorist Benbrika freed under strict orders after plots to attack AFL grand final

By Dominic Giannini, 4:01pm Dec 19, 2023

Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika will be released from prison under more than 30 strict conditions after a push to keep him behind bars due to community safety risk was abandoned.

Benbrika, who appeared in court via video link, spent nearly two decades behind bars after being convicted over plots to attack the MCG during the 2005 AFL grand final, and Melbourne's Crown Casino.

He was released on Tuesday after justice Elizabeth Hollingworth ruled in the Victorian Supreme Court he will be subject to strict supervision and a curfew for one year.

Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika has been released from prison. (ABC)(ABC)

Benbrika, aged in his 60s, was spotted being driven out of Barwon Prison in the back seat of a dark-coloured ute.

He will have to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet and cannot leave Victoria without approval, with police to be given extensive powers to monitor his electronic communications.

He also cannot contact certain individuals, including people in prison, convicted terrorists, those charged with such offences and people on a list prescribed by the court.

Benbrika will continue to receive psychological treatment, will need permission from the police to start a job and cannot visit numerous public places.

He will be blacked from discussing terrorist activities publicly but can do so in his deradicalisation program.

Breaching conditions of the supervision order is a criminal offence and carries a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment.

Benbrika being driven out of Barwon prison in the back seat of a dark-coloured ute. (9News)

Justice Hollingworth agreed Benbrika's "relative risk is still unacceptable at this time" due to the serious nature of his offending.

But she was satisfied "the combined effect of the conditions ... is reasonably necessary and reasonably appropriate and adapted for the purpose of protecting the community from the unacceptable risks that Benbrika presents".

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said he had faith in law enforcement agencies to protect the community.

The supervision order was the strongest course of action as an extended prison sentence could not be ordered by the court given the risk reduction, Dreyfus said.

"The court held that these conditions were sufficient to protect the community," he said in a statement.

But acting opposition leader Sussan Ley slammed the government for not fighting to keep Benbrika behind bars.

"Benbrika is the worst of the worst," she said.

"The government has not done everything they could have done to keep Australians safe from this convicted terrorist."

However, part of the reason the Commonwealth opted for a supervision order over continuing detention was a report buried by the home affairs department under the former coalition government.

Benbrika will be subject to more than 30 strict conditions. (ABC)

It found the methods used to assess the future risk a person poses to the community were no better than flipping a coin.

It was "clearly a document that should have been disclosed," Hollingworth said.

She also revealed four other reports critical of the assessment tool had not been disclosed and slammed the Commonwealth for its secrecy.

While an assessment tool isn't legally required to be used, any reliied upon needed to be based on evidence and "have some underlying validity", she said.

It was concerning the department didn't disclose any of the reports to the court, Justice Hollingworth said, after previously branding the move "a disgrace".

The Commonwealth decided to apply for a supervision order after Benbrika's lawyers seized on one of the reports to challenge the veracity of the detention order he was under once it come to light.

The onus remained on the government to keep him behind bars, Ley said when asked if the former coalition government bore any responsibility for a detention order not being imposed after failing to disclose the report.

The non-disclosure of the reports will be referred to the national security legislation watchdog by the judge after her full written reasons are released.

Preventative detention was an exceptional measure but "not the norm" within a legal system, Justice Hollingworth added.

The legal system's role "is not to detain people to prevent a crime that they may or may not commit in the future".

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Estelle Hollingworth, ''Collier's Junior Classics'', Vol. 1: A, B, C, Go!, 1962 Source

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Mr. Bates vs The Post Office (2024)

One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

This show is all based on a true story and it will make your blood boil and make you very angry at the injustice. This is still ongoing and you will not believe how long it has taken for the innocent postmasters and postmistresses to get this level of coverage. A must watch. If you are not in Britain, it will still be worth watching if you read up a little bit on the 'Horizon Post Office Scandal'. It really is just so wrong what has happened.

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What keeps me together, what shoulders those 'escapades' of mine, is this dear woman, Angie, who knows David Bowie... eh, she knows me better than I do.

— David Bowie on Angie to Roy Hollingworth, The History of Rock Magazine, 1973.

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"The curiosity of language is that it claims no existence for itself, and that it does this by teaching it only ever stands in for things which are themselves what actually exists. It therefore claims an essential invisibility for itself. It seeks total and seamless identity with the discourse of existence and the God-valence of things. And yet it appears that on the close, Wittgensteinian analysis, it is not so innocent as this—That it may actually create what it stands in for. I am saying that if you want to incorporate the whole of Wittgenstein’s philosophy into a single preoccupation, then this would be it: to make what pretends to be invisible in language visible. To show it is impossible to determine which came first, the word or the thing the word stands for. And, finally, to show how this means that as readers—that as the reading animals (alone of all the animals)—we are never actually included (in the way that Hobbes thought we could be included) in the private business of language. Language is always hypothetical. Language only ever shows you how things would look if language were used. Language only exists because there exists also the total alternative to language, to the World of Language, to the World of Syntax and Sense. I have described this ‘total alternative’ as like waking up from the dream."

Miles Hollingworth, Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ridley Scott's Napoleon — Official Trailer

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Synopsis

The film is an original and personal look at Napoleon’s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine, played by Vanessa Kirby. The film captures Napoleon’s famous battles, relentless ambition and astounding strategic mind as an extraordinary military leader and war visionary.

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Into The Earth (2021) Review

In The Earth explains why most women - and most people - would choose the bear. #Review

[nikkiruncks]

Imagine saying “if you care about this family, you’ll show up to dinner” to your son, completely ignoring his fear because his abusive father is there. Fuck Diana Hollingsworth.

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Napoleon' Review: Raucous Romance, Straightforward Warfare

Napoleon' Review: Raucous Romance, Straightforward Warfare

Napoleon just does whatever he wants, gosh! (CREDIT: Aidan Monaghan/Apple) Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Ben Miles, Ludivine Sagnier, Matthew Needham, Youssef Kerkour, Phil Cornwell, Édouard Philipponnat, Ian McNeice, Rupert Everett, Paul Rhys, Catherine Walker, Gavin Spokes, John Hollingworth, Mark Bonnar, Anna Mawn, Davide Tucci, Sam Crane, Scott Handy Director: Ridley…

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REBECCA 2020

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. 

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Out of Control: Game Boy by Paul Hollingworth

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Hollingworth Lake. Nikon F65. Rollei RPX 25.

Hollingworth Lake was originally built as a water source for the Rochdale Canal and was developed as a tourist resort in the nineteenth century.

I decided to take a drive to deepest darkest Greater Manchester in November last year purely because I had driven through it on the way home from an earlier day out and it had caught my eye.

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Wherever we travelled, each station, each town, there were few spare minutes when [David] didn't hug, kiss and point at this lady, and say, loudly, "She's the greatest."

Roy Hollingworth, The History of Rock Magazine, 1973.

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