Larice Rainnie says her life has changed drastically over the past few years.
The 72-year-old used to be a dedicated public servant, a horse rider and social person in her hometown of Perth.
Now she lives alone in Auckland, telling SBS News she leaves the house “just three times a week”.
“I don’t feel like I belong anywhere. Limbo,” she said.
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Larice was deported from Australia to New Zealand in late 2019, after her visa was cancelled over an 18-month jail sentence for a drug-related crime in Finland.
She’d moved to Australia in 1964 and lived in the country for the next 55 years of her life.
A sexual sadist and paedophile who raped a psychiatric patient and slit her throat with a broken glass bottle has been released from jail, despite pleas from doctors he is at high risk of re-offending.
Mark Richard Lawrence, 59, was allowed to walk free from Brisbane Correctional Centre after a court ruled Queensland s Attorney-General failed to prove he was likely to breach a current supervision order.
He was originally locked up in 1983 for the Boxing Day rape and murder of Julie Anne Muirhead, 29, and was sentenced to 15 years.
Mark Richard Lawrence, 59, was originally locked up for the Boxing Day rape and murder of Julie Anne Muirhead, 29, (pictured)
The political news of three Sundays ago was overwhelmingly about same-sex marriage, and no wonder.
Finally, after almost two-dozen failed attempts, the senate had voted for its legalisation. The next day, debate was to begin in the house. Expectations were high.
But in all the excitement about marriage equality, another political milestone went unremarked. It also was the 10th anniversary of the fall of John Howard’s government. On December 3, 2007, Australia’s second-longest-serving prime minister was replaced by Kevin Rudd, having lost the election and his seat.
It was under Howard, of course, that the marriage act was changed to specifically prohibit same-sex unions. The fact that marriage equality finally passed the parliament almost exactly a decade after his ousting was more than a coincidence, however. It was a reminder of the extent to which John Howard’s prime ministership still haunts Australian politics.
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The ABC did not name Christian Porter in its story revealing a minister had allegedly raped a woman in the 1980s, but the Attorney General will argue in defamation action that the use of two words in the report narrowed down the field of supposed culprits enough for people to work out his identity.
Mr Porter, 50, and the Who s Who of lawyers representing him argue the national broadcaster gravely injured his reputation by referring to the accused man as a senior Morrison Government minister and Cabinet official.
The Attorney General, who denies the rape allegation, said those criteria narrowed it down to just three men who were senior cabinet members and around the same age as the victim, who was 16 at the time of the alleged rape.