The Morrison government is ramping up pressure on Labor to support a bipartisan approach to energy and emissions policy as it rebuffs critics of its climate change plan in industry and the environmental movement.

Energy Minister Angus Taylor has dismissed calls from climate change groups to reach a deal on  Labor's proposals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, insisting his opponents recognise the will of the people and back the government's plan.

The call came after likely Labor deputy leader Richard Marles admitted on Monday he had been "tone deaf" to welcome the end of coal, in a comment that signals an opposition rethink on its wider policy on climate change.

Mr Taylor ruled out reviving the full National Energy Guarantee (NEG) as a way to cut emissions despite a suggestion from former Liberal deputy leader Julie Bishop on election night that the option should be on the table.

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"We're firmly committed to the policies we took to the election. We now have a clear mandate to implement those policies – and we'll be doing so," Mr Taylor said in an interview.

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"There's now an opportunity for a bipartisan approach to energy and emissions.

"Labor should adopt our plan, which was supported by the Australian people, and I know industry wants to see bipartisanship. Now's the opportunity."

Industry groups including the Business Council of Australia backed the NEG last year when it was put forward by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and endorsed by his cabinet and party room, only for the emissions target within the policy to be scrapped at the height of the August leadership crisis.

Labor went to the election with a policy to revive the guarantee and use a market mechanism to cut emissions, a stance backed by some industry executives who were uneasy at Mr Taylor's insistence on using the existing Emissions Reduction Fund to reduce carbon.

Mr Taylor insists the public funding in the Emissions Reduction Fund will help meet the government target to reduce carbon output by 26 per cent by 2030.

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Asked if the government would consider using the NEG to reduce emissions, he said: "We don't need to." He said another feature of the guarantee, a reliability obligation on electricity generators, would come into force as planned on July 1.

"Now is the opportunity for Labor to accept the policy we took to the election and create a bipartisan approach to these issues," Mr Taylor said.

While industry executives had speculated that Prime Minister Scott Morrison might appoint a new energy minister, he instead confirmed Mr Taylor in the position in the cabinet reshuffle on Sunday.

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Mr Taylor's priorities include signing contracts with 12 projects shortlisted to gain government support to add new generation to the electricity grid, as well as legislating price benchmarks to start on July 1 to act on recommendations from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

"We've been clear that we'll bring as much supply and competition into the market that we need to get back to a reasonable wholesale price," he said.

"If these shortlisted projects provide us with enough, so be it. If we need more, we'll look for more."

On calls from the Nationals to support a new coal-fired power station in Queensland to provide baseload power, he said the government would take a "balanced" approach.

"Coal has a role to play in our energy mix. Renewables are playing an increasing role, so whichever way you look at it there will be balance," Mr Taylor said.

"Picking fuels is much less important than focusing on outcomes, so we'll focus on the emissions and price and reliability outcomes we want."

Ms Bishop, speaking on a television panel on election night, questioned the Coalition's decision to dump the NEG.

Incoming Labor leader Anthony Albanese said on Monday that "the science is in" on climate change and that action was needed, but he left scope to change Labor policy on the mechanism to be used to do so.

"I am neither a climate sceptic nor am I a market sceptic when it comes to action on climate change, because I have listened to business and sat down with them," he said. "But the time for the ongoing conflict over these issues surely is over."

Labor has been stung by its defeat in Queensland electorates, where voters did not back the party's equivocal position on the Adani coal mine and greater ambition to cut emissions by 45 per cent by 2030.

Mr Marles accepted on Monday that the party suffered for his remarks in February that the collapse of the market for thermal coal was good "at one level" despite fears over job losses.

"The comments I made earlier this year were tone deaf and I regret them and I was apologising for them within a couple of days of making them," he told radio station 3AW.

Asked where he stood on Adani, Mr Marles said the party valued working people.

"Coal clearly is going to play a significant part of the future energy mix in Australia and it's clearly going to be a significant part of our economy," he said.

"And it's really important that we acknowledge that people who work in the coal industry need to be valued by us and that we thank and celebrate their work. That's important."

Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman will call on Tuesday for more agreement in Parliament on climate change and energy, an area where gas exporters face significant costs if a future government seeks to impose a market mechanism to reduce emissions.

"Our goal should be an approach to climate policy that is national, consistent with the Paris Agreement and which balances the environment and industries that support jobs and economic growth," Mr Coleman says in a draft of his speech to a gas industry conference.

"Once again, these are not competing goals but need to be aligned if outcomes are to be sustainable."

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The one constant in the swirl of parenting advice is that children should have limited screen time.

My girls have had iPads since they were three. TV shows like In the Night Garden were part of their wind-down ritual before bed. They spend hours absorbed in Minecraft and Crossy Road. My older daughter spends her school holidays at "code camp" to learn even more about screens. And they veg out at the movies and TV.

Given all that, the experts would surely say that I’m a terrible dad.

The eminent neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield fears screens are changing the very structures of our brains, eroding our inner life and capacity for introspection. Meanwhile, David Gillespie, author of Teen Brain, claims "unfettered access to screens is driving an epidemic of addiction, depression and anxiety, the likes of which we have never witnessed before”.

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The World Health Organisation recommends no sedentary screen time for children under two and no more than one hour per day for two-year-olds. They add “less is better”, pointing to links between the time children sit in front of screens and excess fat, delayed motor and cognitive development and poor emotional health.

“Sedentary screen time is one type of passive sedentary time and has an unfavourable association with, for example cognitive development,” says Dr Juana Willumsen, WHO focal point for childhood obesity and physical activity.

But it’s worth taking a closer look at the evidence.

The WHO recommendations, for example, are based on systematic reviews of data published in peer-reviewed journals on the relationship between physical activity, sedentary behaviour — specifically sedentary behaviour reported by parents as passive screen use — sleep and various health outcomes

That all seems pretty watertight — until you read the accompanying commentary the WHO provide on the quality of evidence.

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Look at the text just under the recommendations for sedentary time where there is, in a smaller-sized font, the following disclaimer: “Strong recommendations, very low quality evidence.”

The WHO goes on to acknowledge that their recommendations on the links between screen time and body fat, cognitive and motor skills development and psychosocial health are based on “moderate to very low-quality evidence” and that “the overall quality of evidence was rated as very low”.

This comes as no surprise to other researchers in the field.

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“We have no evidence yet that if, for example, a teenager is doing poorly, taking away their phone would help them,” says PhD candidate Amy Orben from the University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology.

Ms Orben, along with Professor Andrew K Przybylski from the Oxford Internet Institute, looked at data involving some 17,000 children aged 9–15 living in Ireland, the US, and the UK, and found there was almost no evidence to show digital technologies adversely affect children’s wellbeing.

So what gives? Why are parents routinely advised to reduce screen time for kids?

One of the problems with research on technology and health, Ms Orben says, is it often mistakes correlation and causality.

“It’s the same kind of thing with murder rates going up when ice cream sales go up. There's no relation between the two, but murder rates are higher in the summer and ice cream sales are also higher in the summer,” says Ms Orben.

Similarly, the ubiquity of screens and increasing reports of anxiety and depression and other health problems among kids have occurred together, but no causal link has been proven.

Another problem is researchers using huge datasets. While these make the findings robust, they can also make otherwise tiny effects take on a significance that might otherwise go unnoticed in everyday life.

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“We can label effects, as statistically significant, that are tiny,” says Ms Orben, adding that "statistical significance is not the same as practical significance".

Ms Orben illustrates the point with the example of wearing glasses. “If a teenager wears glasses to school, that also has a negative correlation with their wellbeing. That correlation is also really, really small. It is statistically significant — and it's actually larger than the one between digital technologies and wellbeing.”

That’s not to say there’s no adverse effect of screen time and technology, but the proven impact children’s wellbeing and development is tiny. Ms Orben says children would need to use screens up to 11 hours per day or more to experience a decrease in wellbeing. While we’ve all heard stories of kids “addicted” to video games, they are the exception, rather than the rule.

Ms Orben points out that, unlike the World Health Organisation, the UK Chief Medical Officer for the UK and England and the Royal Society for Paediatrics and Child Health have declined to issue concrete guidelines about screen time because the evidence of harm simply isn’t there.

Sydney-based registered psychologist Jocelyn Brewer says studying the impacts of screen time is difficult ("you can't give all teenagers a ‘dose’ of technology and map the outcome"), but the "less is better" message from the WHO and others is unhelpful.

“We really need to empower parents to help them work out what does their digital diet and the digital menu look like for their family, and how does that fit into bigger questions of when do you go and spend time in the outdoors or as a family, and how and when do you eat meals, and all of that other contextual wellbeing.”

Ms Brewer says these recommendations also often ignore the potential positives of screen time.

“For some kids not to be on social media is worse for their wellbeing than being a moderate user, because they don't have that social capital to participate, the way other kids do,” she says, adding that, for many kids, hanging out on social media or video games such as Fortnite is the equivalent of spending hours in the skate park or the shopping centre.

She advises parents to become active participants alongside their children in screen time and talk to other parents to negotiate ground rules about technology use.

“We want parents to feel empowered around taking control and understanding what's happening in the digital space, not shamed,” says Ms Brewer. “Participating is better than standing back saying ‘I'm not a gamer, I don't get that' or ‘just do that for one hour a day'.”

Christopher Scanlon is a Melbourne academic and co-author of the young-adult series The Chess Raven Chronicles under the pen name Violet Grace.

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Many young Australians are having sex without condoms and skipping STI checks, but researchers say peer perceptions, not a lack of information, is to blame.

According to the National Debrief Survey, conducted by UNSW's Centre for Social Research in Health in 2018, 75 per cent of young Australians who had sex in the past 12 months did so without a condom at least once.

Of that group, 24 per cent did not use condoms when having sex with casual partners. A person's likelihood of consistent condom use decreases with the number of casual partners they had: more than 66 per cent of people who had five casual partners or more over the year reported having not used a condom.

The survey, of more than 2300 Australians aged 15 to 29, also found only 58 per cent had ever had an STI test.

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Lead author Dr Philippe Adam said the survey showed young people were quite knowledgeable about sexual health. He attributed the behaviour to "social norms".

"Not all young people think that their peers would expect them to use condoms,” she said.

Over 92 per cent said someone should use a condom with a new sexual partner, however the number who thought their best friend would want them to use a condom was closer to 62 per cent, and only 23 per cent strongly agreed that condom use with new partners was common among people their age.

The statistics were similar for regular STIs checks: 67 per cent said they felt strongly that people their age should test for STIs, but only one in five said their best friend would feel the same way, and just one in 10 believed this was a common behaviour.

Women were more likely to have had an STI test, both in their lifetime (63 per cent, as opposed to 51 per cent of men) and in the past 12 months (40 per cent versus 31 per cent). Rates of testing among those who identified as LGBTQI+ were also higher than those who identified as heterosexual (65 per cent had previously been tested, compared to 55 per cent); researchers noted this was largely due to the more frequent testing practices of young gay men, who are largely the target of HIV awareness campaigns.

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Dr Adam said use of other contraceptives could contribute to low condom use in heterosexual partnerships.

"Young women who are on the pill are certainly less likely to use condoms but the pill doesn't protect against STIs," Dr Adam warned.

Dr Deborah Bateson, medical director at Family Planning NSW, said condom use is relatively normal among the young people she sees in clinic, noting these statistics indicate whether a young person will take a risk and not use a condom once, rather than their regular behaviour.

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"From my clinical experience, there's more awareness of the need to use condoms, but there can be that disconnect … when it comes to the reality of the situation it doesn't always happen," she said.

Close to 97 per cent of respondents in the UNSW survey believed an STI could affect anyone who was sexually active, over 66 per cent said they were unlikely to have one, and roughly one in five did not know an STI could have no symptoms.

"There still is that lack of awareness about STIs mostly not having symptoms… you can't tell if someone has an STI or not," Dr Bateson said. "If [a partner looks] trustworthy, that doesn't mean they don't have an STI … the best way to do that is to use a condom, and we've got to enforce those messages."

Southampton: Usman Khawaja has staked his claim to open in the Cricket World Cup ahead of David Warner as Australia wrapped up their preparations with a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka.

Engaged in a battle with Warner to partner Aaron Finch against Afghanistan on Saturday, Khawaja hit 89 from 105 balls at Southampton on Monday.

He fell stumped just before Australia finished chasing 8-239 inside 45 overs – the defending champions' third straight victory since arriving on English soil.

With Warner rested from Monday's match with upper leg soreness, Khawaja took his chance at the top of the order.

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He hit just three boundaries in his knock, but was solid all around the ground.

The knock came just hours after he limped from the field with an apparent injury, struck on his problematic left knee by a ball he attempted to field at mid-off.

Khawaja averages 96.8 as an opener in one-day cricket compared with 38.96 at No.3.

He starred in the recent away series against India and Pakistan, giving selectors a headache on Warner's return from his 12-month ban.

Warner meanwhile hasn't passed 50 in his four warm-up games back in Australian colours, but was the leading run-scorer in this year's Indian Premier League.

Of Australia's six warm-up matches, Khawaja has opened four times and Warner three.

Both have also spent time at No.3, where Shaun Marsh appears in danger of missing selection.

The West Australian combined for an 80-run stand with Khawaja on Monday, but was caught at long on trying to take Dhananjaya Silva down the ground on 34.

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Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis also perished in the deep for 36 and 32 respectively before Alex Carey (18 no) and Pat Cummins (9 no) finished the job.

Australia had earlier split their wickets, with Adam Zampa (2-39) the pick of the bowlers.

Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc, Cummins and Kane Richardson also each claimed one – albeit with the latter being the most expensive as he fights for a role as the team's third quick.

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London: British eurosceptic Nigel Farage said on Monday that his new Brexit Party's victory in the European election should spur Britain to leave the European Union even without a divorce deal.

His call was echoed by many senior Conservatives, stung by their party's humiliating defeat.

Farage's single-issue party and pro-EU forces combined to trounce Britain's two dominant political parties in the European Parliament election, as angry voters blamed the ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party for the country's Brexit impasse.

With complete results announced on Monday, the Brexit Party had won 29 of the 73 British EU seats up for grabs and almost a third of the votes. On the pro-EU side, the Liberal Democrats took 20 per cent of the vote and 16 seats – a dramatic increase from the single seat in won in the last EU election in 2014.

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The opposition Labour Party came third with 14.1 per cent, followed by the pro-European environmentalist Greens, who captured nearly 12.1 per cent. The Conservatives – apparently blamed by voters for failing to deliver Brexit in March as planned – were in fifth with under 10 per cent of the vote.

The election leaves Britain's EU exit more uncertain than ever, with both Brexiteers and pro-EU "remainers" able to claim strong support. The result raises the likelihood of a chaotic "no deal" exit from the EU – but also the possibility of a new Brexit referendum that could reverse the decision to leave.

A triumphant Farage said he doubted the Conservatives, who are seeking a new leader, would be able to take Britain out of the 28-nation bloc on the currently scheduled date of October 31.

"The Conservative Party are bitterly divided and I consider it to be extremely unlikely that they will pick a leader who is able to take us out on the 31st October [deadline]," Farage said.

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He said his party – which currently has no members and no policies apart from leaving the EU – would "stun everybody" in the next British general election if the country didn't leave the EU on time.

British Prime Minister Theresa May, who is stepping down as Conservative leader next month after failing to deliver Brexit, said the "disappointing" result of the European vote "shows the importance of finding a Brexit deal, and I sincerely hope these results focus minds in Parliament."

But the election instead is likely to harden the uncompromising stance of the candidates vying to succeed her. On Monday, Home Secretary Sajid Javid became the ninth Conservative lawmaker to enter the race for the top job.

"First and foremost, we must deliver Brexit," he said.

Boris Johnson, the current favourite to replace May, tweeted: "The message from last night's results is clear. It is time for us to deliver Brexit."

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Most businesses and economists think leaving the EU with no agreement on departure terms and future relations would cause economic turmoil and plunge Britain into a recession. But many Conservatives think embracing a no-deal Brexit may be the only way to win back voters from Farage's party.

Labour paid for a fence-sitting Brexit policy in which it dithered over whether to support a new referendum that could halt Brexit. Some senior Labour figures said after the party's weak performance that it must now firmly back a new referendum on Britain's departure from the bloc.

Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has long resisted a new referendum, but Labour economy spokesman John McDonnell suggested that might change.

He said the best way of stopping a damaging no-deal Brexit was "going back to the people in a referendum, and that's what I think our members want."

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Robbie Farah has been given the ultimate leave pass – granted permission to watch his beloved English Premier League giants Liverpool take on Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League final in Spain this weekend.

Wests Tigers are enjoying the bye this weekend, which allowed the club pin-up to sneak off to the other side of the world to watch the epic showdown in Madrid.

It's understood the only proviso for Farah is he be back for training by Monday, less than 24 hours after the showpiece match is played.

The Tigers' next match is when they host Canberra on Friday week at Bankwest Stadium.

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Farah is a Reds fanatic and took to social media to share his excitement about the once-in-a-lifetime trip.

The 35-year-old is also behind Two4Seven, a sports travel company he plans to spend more time on once he retires from the NRL.

The Tigers were prepared to grant Farah his wish because of his professionalism. The mid-season trip would also double as a mid-season freshen up.

As Farah prepared to fly out for Europe, his Tigers teammate Ryan Matterson started training with the NSW Blues after being drafted in as the 18th man.

Tigers coach Michael Maguire was hardly surprised Matterson, who won a premiership with the Sydney Roosters before he joined the joint venture, had popped up on Brad Fittler's Blues radar.

"He's been brilliant, he's brought a professionalism to our organisation and it's a reward for what he's been doing,'' Maguire said.

"He'll play a major part in the Wests Tigers rising to where we want to go.

"His inclusion wasn't a surprise. He's ready for that space. Working with a number of guys in and around Origin, he's well suited to that arena.''

Tigers skipper Moses Mbye was also picked in the No. 14 jumper for Queensland.

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Bruce Stewart gave his family his usual "loving farewell" when he left on Monday morning for work, but he never made it there.

The 44-year-old father-of-two left his home on Potts Street in Ryde about 7.30am, heading in his 2002 blue Holden Astra sedan towards the high school in Sydney's western suburbs where he works as a teacher librarian.

His wife, Melissa Stewart, said he "made brief contact with some close friends before not responding to any calls or messages, which is very, very unlike him."

Police have since issued a missing person alert for anyone who may have seen him.

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"We are asking the public to please keep looking for him, and contact police immediately if they can help," Ms Stewart said on Tuesday morning.

"We are distraught. He is our world, a devoted father and husband, adored by all who know him, and we are desperate to find him."

Mr Stewart is described as being Caucasian in appearance, about 185cm tall with short light-coloured hair and cropped beard with flecks of grey.

The vehicle he was driving has faded blue paint with NSW registration CA29HZ.

If anyone knows the whereabouts of Mr Stewart, they are urged to contact police at Ryde Police Area Command, or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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A mother and her four children are dead after a head-on crash with a truck near Kingaroy, north-west of Brisbane.

Police said a southbound Nissan station wagon smashed into a northbound truck on the Bunya Highway near Kumbia, 220 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, about 7.20pm on Monday.

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The station wagon pulled out to overtake a truck and hit an oncoming truck and both vehicles "went up in flames" upon impact, according to police.

One of the children, a young girl, was rushed to Kingaroy Hospital in a critical condition and later flown to the Queensland Children’s Hospital, but she died during the flight.

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The mother, a 35-year-old woman from the Hervey Bay suburb of Eli Waters, and the three other children, all aged under 10, were declared dead at the scene.

The truck driver, a 47-year-old man, was taken to Kingaroy Hospital suffering from minor injuries and shock.

"This is a catastrophic incident scene, it’s certainly one of the worst accidents I’ve ever seen, it’s just a tragedy for everyone involved," a police spokesman said at the scene.

Queensland Ambulance Service assistant commissioner Stephen Zsombok said his "seasoned" medics described the scene as "horrific, extremely traumatic and very unsettling".

The Bunya Highway was expected to remain closed for most of Tuesday with local diversions in place.

The Forensic Crash Unit was investigating.

Last week, six lives were lost during 48 hours on Queensland roads.

The state's road toll for the year has climbed to 83 fatalities. Near the end of May during the previous five years, the road toll was: 92 (2018),  86 (2017), 96 (2016), 95 (2015) and 83 (2014).

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A prominent businessman from the southern tablelands, who claimed to offer "white-collar…logistics advice" and "board" experience in a major international drug trafficking operation, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to import the second largest cocaine seizure in Australian history.

Rohan Peter Arnold, 44, was apprehended during a dramatic gunpoint arrest in a Serbian hotel in January last year, over his role in the importation of 1.28 tonnes of the illicit substance, hidden inside hollow prefabricated steel on a container boat in April 2017.

His co-accused, Tristan Waters, 34, and David Campbell, 48, were also detained by local Serbian authorities during the arrest.

The 44-year-old Murrumbateman man had been facing five potential life sentences for five charges linked to his alleged role in the drug importation.

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However less than two weeks ago he appeared before Sydney's Central Local Court, having cut a deal to plead guilty to a single offence of conspiring to import a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug, cocaine, between January 18, 2017 and January 16, 2018.

The four remaining charges against him, which included importing and attempting to import a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug, and attempting and conspiring to possess such a drug, were dropped.

It is understood the four related charges were discontinued in view of Mr Arnold's plea of guilty, at the discretion of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.

On the single conspiracy charges, Mr Arnold still faces a possible maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

A well-known stockyard director and steel importer with multiple business interests, Mr Arnold has been in custody ever since his arrest and subsequent extradition from Serbia last year, which included an extraordinary sightseeing tour of Paris under federal police escort during his journey back to Australia.

Mr Arnold's guilty plea comes almost eight months after he made an unsuccessful application for bail in the Supreme Court, during which the court heard extensive details about the alleged importation from China and how it ended with dramatic scenes in Serbia.

In March last year it was revealed Mr Arnold had walked into a trap carefully laid by Australian Federal Police, who had utilised an undercover operative while conducting ongoing surveillance of the group ever since seizing the shipping container when it arrived in Australia in 2017.

When the group did not receive the container they had been expecting, the undercover operative led them to believe it had mistakenly been delivered to New Zealand, before luring them to a meeting in Serbia under the guise they could retrieve the cocaine for $3 million.

Instead the men found themselves face down on the carpet of a Belgrade hotel lobby, as their meeting was stormed by local police.

Mr Arnold's various business interests and experience in property development, the steel industry and the livestock trade were purportedly key to his alleged involvement in the importation.

"I do not fit the stereotype of the normal here … I am a white-collar, successful businessman, where I sit on a number of boards,” he allegedly wrote in an encrypted messaging chat group between syndicate members in 2017.

“Throughout my involvement I have tried to … get this group to make decisions like a board … right now we have a board at war with each other … While my fingerprints are not directly on the project … I have given logistics advice … [so] the manufacturer may potentially come looking for my blood.”

Mr Arnold is still listed as the director and secretary of nine companies, many of which hold his name, including Arnold Consulting Services Pty Ltd, Arnold Trading Pty Ltd and steel manufacturer Arnold Contracting (NO2) Pty Ltd, formerly S4Steel Pty Limited, which is currently under external administration.

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Stephen John Hundy was appointed as liquidator in August last year, following Mr Arnold's arrest, after which it appeared to cease trading.

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Mr Waters and Mr Campbell remain before the courts, with both men yet to enter a plea. Mr Waters will next appear at Central Local Court on July 24.

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James Murdoch has signalled plans to have "precisely zero" involvement in his family's remaining businesses following the sales of 21st Century Fox and Sky, in a historic split of the world's best-known media dynasty.

The comments to friends inform a new book, The Battle for Sky, which chronicles the rise of Britain's dominant pay-TV operator and the struggles of the Murdoch family to gain full control over it.

The book describes how James and his father Rupert Murdoch, now 88, quashed opposition from his elder brother Lachlan to break-up and cash in a global entertainment empire built over three decades.

Sky was sold to US cable giant Comcast in a £30 billion ($55 billion) auction last October, while Disney acquired most of 21st Century Fox in a $US71 billion ($102 billion) merger that changed the shape of Hollywood as it comes under attack from Netflix and other tech giants. The sales triggered a $US2 billion payday for each of the Murdoch children and are expected to trigger James's departure from the family business.

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He has made clear he opposes the populist politics of Fox News, which is now under Lachlan's control and the central asset of a "new Fox" in which he plays no part. James is for now still on the board of News Corp, publisher of The Sun, but is focused on Lupa Systems, a new investment vehicle.

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The Battle for Sky includes a foreword by Mark Thompson, the former head of the BBC, who discusses his role in campaigning against the News Corp bid for Sky that was ultimately destroyed by the phone hacking scandal.

Mr Thompson reveals his secret meeting with Paul Dacre, the former editor of the Daily Mail, and his decision to sign a letter opposing the takeover without approval of the BBC Trust.

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