The Federal government has announced new measures aimed at tackling organised crime at docks around the country, under the planned legislation, police will have the power to revote a person's right to work on the waterfront, if it's believed they are involved in criminal activity.

 

The home affairs minister Jason Clare in the past two years more than 12 tonnes of illicit substances have been seized at Sydney's docks as we hearing from him in a couple of hours time.

 

The Federal government has expressed its concern over Papua New Guinea's latest political crisis, police have charged the country's chief justice with sedition and released him on bail, the Salamo Injia will appear in court late this morning.

 

And the governor of Bali's Kerobokan prison will meet Schapelle Corby today to begin assessing her eligibility for parole, Indonesia's president has ordered a five year cut to her 20-year prison sentence.

 

And an Australian first survey has found less than half of the people who witness sexual harassment are likely willing to intervene, the Latrobe University study surveyed 600 Victorians and found about third of them had witnessed sex behaviour in the past year, but fewer than half did anything about this.