$2.50 TUESDAY June 9, 2015 PRICE INCLUDES GST WWW.THEAUSTRALIAN.COM.AU I THE HEART OF THE NATION FREIGHT EXTRA JUDITH SLOAN INQUIRER P11 LIFE P10 JOHN ‘What are they CHARLES, THE BEYOND LETHLEAN’S FIRST BITE smoking in Treasury?’ BOTTLE AND ME THE SPUD GOURMAND GOSSIP Here are some facts on Alastair Campbell on his friend Why Peru is superannuation {P12} Charles Kennedy’s battle with booze foodie heaven EXCLUSIVE Deadline for BBY clients to learn their losses + Are the bank stocks in bear territory? { BUSINESS REVIEW P17 } • SPORT Cronk out of Origin, Cherry-Evans in { P32 } BISHOP SAYS ISLAMIC STATE RAIDING HOSPITALS, RESEARCH CENTRES FOR RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Senate’s $64m a Jihadis’ quest for dirty bomb week hit Curfew, net bans falling under the sway of jihadist from a proposal by Victoria which intervention orders are which runs until July 17. That to budget EXCLUSIVE recruiters, under a proposed Police to give law enforcement granted only on the basis of an would also be an opportunity for mooted to fight class of intervention order being the ability to deploy a broad offence being committed on the Islamic State, formerly known as BRENDAN NICHOLSON radicalised youth considered in several states. range of measures against balance of probabilities. Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) and al- DAVID CROWE DEFENCE EDITOR Queensland has joined young people they believe are It is believed the proposed Sham and Islamic State of Iraq POLITICAL Victoria in considering plans to falling under the spell of jihadist orders could be used to restrict a and the Levant (ISIL), to mark the CORRESPONDENT The Islamic State terror group is RICK WALLACE create a class of intervention recruiters and their slick online subject’s ability to associate first anniversary of its capture of believed to have collected radio- VICTORIAN POLITICAL EDITOR order that could be applied to propaganda campaigns. with particular people, as well the city of Mosul on June 10 last The Abbott government is losing active material from hospitals and “radicalised” young people even The so-called community as restricting their movements year, when its leader, Abu Bakr al- ground in the campaign to legis- research establishments in cities it Curfews, internet bans and if they were not planning a protection intervention orders and internet access. Baghdadi, declared a caliphate. late major reforms that are has captured in Iraq and Syria, deradicalisation programs crime or act of terrorism. would mark a major departure Victorian Attorney-General “For the past three years, ISIS meant to start on July 1, in a set- raising fears it could build a large would be enforced for youths The plans have emerged from the current system, under Continued on Page 4 How The Weekend Australian has conducted major offensive back that threatens budget sav- “dirty” bomb, says Foreign Minis- reported the story on Saturday operations during the Ramadan ings worth about $64 million a ter Julie Bishop. holy month,” it said. “ISIS is there- week. Ms Bishop’s comments to The ing. Possible targets of Islamic poison-gas weapons. The Foreign surgents did not just clear out the Ms Bishop said the so-called a forum in Perth last week. “This is fore likely preparing a surge of Cabinet ministers are yet to Australian came as terrorism spe- State attacks might include Bagh- Minister told The Australian last cash from local banks,” she said. Australia Group — a bloc of about really worrying them,” Ms Bishop operations to try to achieve im- strike deals on cutting family tax cialists warned that Islamic State dad International Airport or the night her speech was based on By capturing territory, Islamic 40 nations, plus the European said. portant campaign objectives. ISIS benefits, income supplements could carry out major attacks in Taji air base where Australian reports from the Defence Depart- State, which is also known as Community, established 30 years The Institute for the Study of can also be expected to commem- and unemployment benefits, as Iraq and Syria during Ramadan, Army instructors train Iraqi ment and the Department of For- Da’ish, had gained access to mat- ago to stop the spread and devel- War, an independent US think orate its declaration of a caliphate the final two weeks of parliament which begins on June 17, and that forces, they said. eign Affairs and Trade. erials normally held by govern- opment of chemical, biological tank, has warned Islamic State is on the first full day of Ramadan loom before some of the changes competition among terror groups In a speech in Perth on Friday NATO was deeply concerned ments. “That’s why stopping and radiological weapons — was likely to be planning major attacks Continued on Page 4 are due to take effect. could see al-Qa’ida carry out a night, Ms Bishop warned that about the theft of radioactive Da’ish gaining territory is so concerned enough about the in Iraq and Syria during the Mus- Angry at being kept in the massive attack to restore its stand- Islamic State might be developing material, Ms Bishop said. “The in- important,” she said. threat to dedicate a session to it at lim holy period of Ramadan, MORE REPORTS P4 dark, crossbench senators are urging the government to reveal the agenda for the coming weeks in the hope of reaching a com- promise that could get some of Noongar deal lays path Young Aussies eager to get down to business the savings through the upper house. Family First senator Bob Day to indigenous future said the government was making no headway with him on its unpopular cuts to family tax ben- PAIGE TAYLOR efits, while independent John Madigan is warning against the A $1.3 billion land-and-cash deal same cuts out of concern at secured by the Noongar people the impact on single-income of Western Australia has been families. hailed as a watershed that Senate blockades have addresses the inability of native already halted $1 billion in sav- title to deliver real change for tra- ings that were meant to take ditional owners in long-colonised effect this financial year, while towns and cities. trimming a similar amount from Noongar leaders representing the savings that Joe Hockey six claimant groups yesterday once pencilled in for next year. watched Premier Colin Barnett COLIN MURTY The Abbott government is and four ministers sign the mass- Glen Colbung running out of time to prevent ive deal first raised as a prospect greater damage to its agenda in 20 years ago by elder Glen Col- gone, it’s been gone for 200 the year from July 1, when it bung, a longtime advocate for years,” Mr Colbung said. wants savings of at least $3.3bn, urban Aborigines who believed “Native title is not worth the including the cuts to benefits. by 1995 that native title was not paper it’s written on for Noongar Liberal Democratic Party going to deliver land or money people because it only works senator David Leyonhjelm said back to his people. where there is no freehold and the government was yet to con- Mr Barnett’s original 2012 almost all of the lower third of this sult the crossbenchers on the offer fuelled outrage in some state is freehold. What is the point agenda for the fortnight starting quarters because it compelled the of native title legislation over our next Monday, the last chance to Noongar people of the state’s country?” pass legislation before the winter southwest, including Perth, to re- The path to the agreement has recess. linquish their native title claims. not all been smooth. The public “It’s a source of frustration for In exchange the new Noongar first heard about the govern- us,” Senator Leyonhjelm said. Boodja Trust and six regional cor- ment’s offer in 2012 when it held The government is yet to nail porations will receive up to talks with Noongar leaders to down its plans for the next sitting 320,000ha of crown land and break the impasse in a long-run- of parliament, apart from putting more than $720 million, indexed ning native title court battle over a priority on its tax cut for small and staggered over 12 years. Continued on Page 6 business. “The critics say we are selling “From week to week it’s a our land but the land is bloody MORE REPORTS P6 moving feast,” Senator Madigan said. “The big problem is that in good faith you look into some- thing and then they don’t stick to Charter plan has taxpayers their agenda, and then you have LYNDON MECHIELSEN to start all over again.” foot bill for rights breaches Gold Coast entrepreneur Miann Scanlan started her own fashion business after struggling to find employment in Queensland The government has major- ity support for a company tax cut In what would be an Austra- This follows a recent survey of SHRINKING YOUTH WORKFORCE after struggling to find full-time from 30 to 28.5 per cent for small EXCLUSIVE lian-first, individuals asserting EXCLUSIVE 1500 employees by Sunsuper that work. Ms Scanlan landed a top companies (sacrificing $3.3bn in their charter rights had been showed running a business was 15 to 24-year-olds % of 15 to 15 to 19-year-olds % of 15 to fashion job in Sydney within days revenue over four years) and a RICK WALLACE breached by the government or a SHANE RODGERS now the No 1 “dream job” of men employed 24-year-olds employed 19-year-olds of graduating with a public rela- small business asset write-off for VICTORIAN POLITICAL public agency could seek com- JESSICA GREWAL and only 4 per cent of people Year full-time employed full-time full-time employed full-time tions and fashion degree from items worth up to $20,000 (giv- EDITOR pensation under the commis- regarded working for a “large cor- Queensland University of Tech- ing up a further $1.8bn in rev- sion’s plan.