More than mates in mining, Chile and Australia share a similar fate
September 11 has a very different meaning in Chile. The old black and white photos of thousands of tortured and dead victims of Chile's dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet rise up on a giant wall of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights.
These days, Chilean memories of that fearful time starting on September 11, 1973 are assisted by touching a screen to show more details or updated photos and stories of people who were lost.
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AU Financial Review
06-06-2025
- AU Financial Review
More than mates in mining, Chile and Australia share a similar fate
September 11 has a very different meaning in Chile. The old black and white photos of thousands of tortured and dead victims of Chile's dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet rise up on a giant wall of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. These days, Chilean memories of that fearful time starting on September 11, 1973 are assisted by touching a screen to show more details or updated photos and stories of people who were lost.
News.com.au
02-06-2025
- News.com.au
Housemates secretly filmed in bathroom of Sydney share house
A Chilean national will be sentenced after police discovered he had been secretly filming three of his female housemates in their share house in an affluent Sydney suburb. The intimate footage captured included the women in the bathroom and their bedroom, none of whom were aware they were being filmed until after they had moved out. Luis Alberto Cancino Mena, 39, had installed a hidden camera in their shared bathroom, including the shower, as well as in one of their bedrooms, according to ABC. The covert recording device Court documents revealed how the gross breach of privacy came to light. Cleaners at the home discovered a pen containing a hidden camera on the bathroom floor, sometime after the tenants had moved out. After pulling the device apart, they found out it was recording. Then, after finding a storage card inside, they found files of themselves cleaning the bathroom and a woman having a shower. The property owner took this to the police, where they found recordings of Cancino setting up the camera. He subsequently confessed to his actions when questioned by police. The documents also revealed that Cancino had folders on his laptop labelled with the names of the women, which included videos of them. None of the women gave Cancino consent to film them. Cancino pleads guilty Cancino pleaded guilty on Thursday to three counts of intentionally recording intimate video/image without consent. Records show he is in Australia on a temporary visa, which is set to expire soon. His passport has been seized by police, and he has told police he intended to return to Chile and not come back to Australia. He had been due to be sentenced on Thursday, but the case was adjourned until July after the defence lawyer raised a 'significant issue' with the statement of facts outside court. Now, one of the women has told ABC that the delay was 'disappointing' and she wants to see him deported. Mena will remain on bail with his case scheduled to return to Waverley Local Court on 8 July. How common is this? According to the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), there were 422 finalised charges related to recording or threatening to record intimate images without consent in 2024. This is a rise from the previous year, with 267 finalised charges in 2023.
News.com.au
30-05-2025
- News.com.au
Bernard Kerik, beleaguered former New York police chief through 9/11, dead at 69
Bernard 'Bernie' Kerik, who rose to national prominence after leading the New York police department through the September 11 terror attacks, has died aged 69. FBI Director Kash Patel announced Kerik's death on X, saying he passed away 'after a private battle with illness.' Lauding Kerik, Patel called him 'a warrior, a patriot and one of the most courageous public servants this country has ever known.' Kerik was the tough-talking head of the New York police when Osama bin Laden's hijackers struck the World Trade Center towers with commercial passenger jets in September 2001. In the traumatic days and weeks after the attack, Kerik, with his squat, muscular build, balding head and black moustache, became a familiar face to Americans across the country as he helped then-mayor Rudy Giuliani guide New York through the crisis. He'd served as Police Commissioner for less than a year when his life and career were altered forever by the terror attacks that killed nearly 2,750 people, including 23 NYPD officers. When Giuliani's second term ended shortly after the attacks, Kerik left office with him and continued their decades-long friendship and professional allegiance. Kerik's rough upbringing was detailed in a memoir, The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit. Born in New Jersey to an alcoholic sex worker, he was abandoned by his mother and brought up by his father, and had a troubled childhood. His career took him around the world, with a stint on a military police posting in South Korea and a role as a security consultant for the Saudi royal family in Saudi Arabia. He later joined the New York Police Department, where he worked undercover in the narcotics division and helped bust 60 members of the notorious Colombian Cali drug cartel. After leaving the Police Commissioner role post-9/11, Kerik remained active in Republican politics, taking on a tour of duty to Iraq in 2003 to help train their law enforcement personnel for former President George W Bush. He suffered another fall from grace after pleading guilty in 2009 to felonies, including tax fraud. He admitted to accepting $255,000 worth of renovations to his apartment from a construction firm suspected of having mob ties, which was angling for government contracts. His plea helped him avoid a maximum potential sentence of up to 61 years behind bars. Instead, he was sentenced to four years in prison. He was released in 2013. Kerik received a presidential pardon in 2020, during President Donald Trump's first term in office. He later teamed up with Giuliani to investigate debunked allegations of election fraud following Trump's 2020 loss, and was among those subpoenaed by lawmakers over accusations of plotting to overturn the election in the January 6, 2021 attacks on the US Capitol.
