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The never-before-revealed phone call that kicked off the Pong Su drug saga
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In early 2003, the Australian embassy in Bangkok received a telephone call from a man wanting to speak with a member of the Australian Federal Police.
Rod Curtis, the AFP’s senior liaison officer in Thailand, took the call. The man told Curtis that he had information about a big drug trafficking operation being planned for Australia.
Former AFP senior liaison officer Rod Curtis.
Not one to pass up an opportunity, Curtis met the man in a hotel lobby later that same day. He left the meeting reasonably certain he was dealing with someone with access to the inner workings of a transnational Asian crime syndicate.
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Last chance to watch: Documentaries and animated films about women and nature
The Rising Gardens Film Festival has been organised by Sangat and Kriti Film Club and curated by Reena Mohan. Nina Sabnani’s Hum Chitra Banate Hain (2017) | IDC, IIT Mumbai
The latest film festival to come straight to our computers and tablets is Rising Gardens. The online event has been organised by Sangat and the Kriti Film Club to mark the One Billion Rising’s South Asia Campaign. The selection has been curated by eminent editor and filmmaker Reena Mohan.
The films will be streamed between January and April. The January package, which is available until January 18, is titled ‘Cosmic Connections’ and is organised around the theme of women and nature. The films are available for free on the website www.doculive.in.
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Water safety experts are urging beachgoers to stick to patrolled beaches, carry a flotation device and call triple zero if something goes wrong after an unusual spike in the number of parents drowning trying to save children.
At least five men have died since November in bystander drownings , already surpassing the average annual toll of 4.5 deaths, says Surf Life Saving Australia researcher Dr Jasmine Lawes.
Experts fear COVID may be pushing people towards unpatrolled beaches because they are less crowded.
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More often than not in these situations, the person attempting the rescue drowns while the rescuee survives, she said.