Morning Mail: Abbott on national security, damaging Credlin leak, Oscars award winners

Guardian Australia's Morning Mail Tuesday 24 February Jul 2014 g
Abbott on national security
In his national security address, Tony Abbott announced plans to appoint a counter-terrorism co-ordinator, said he'd revoke citizenship as part of the fight against extremism, and urged Muslim leaders to proclaim Islam as a religion of peace ‘more often, and mean it’.  Muslim leaders have responded with fury at the suggestion that the community did not do enough to counter extremism, saying the statement was the “last card” of an embattled leader.A report said creating a 'homeland security' style department to coordinate agencies would free up the attorney general to focus on citizen’s rights in counter-terrorism law reform. Lenore Taylor writes that the PM's national security speech was more about rhetoric than announcementsSee how the entire day's events unfolded inyesterday's politics live blog.
Oscars 2015
In film's night of nights, Birdman took the top awards for best director and best film, leaving the much-fancied Boyhood with only Patricia Arquette's best supporting actress nod. As every major awards ceremony throws up fine film art and fashion, relive our Oscars red carpet and ceremony live blog, see the full list of Academy Award winners, the hits and misses of red carpet fashion, the best pictures from the Oscars after parties, the top 10 things we learned, and the best quotes of the night. The Academy paid tribute to Robin Williams following the death of the comic actor last year – and putting right its own fudged tribute at the time,but snubbed Joan Rivers in the traditional Oscars in Memoriam tribute. For more Academy Awards stories of every kind, see our full Oscars 2015 coverage here.
Australian news and politics
Tony Abbott has brushed aside another damaging leak in which the Liberal party's federal treasurer is threatening to resign over the "sheer vitriol" spreading within the party over the "conflict of interest" between the PM's chief of staff Peta Credlin and her husband, the Liberal party's federal director Brian Loughnane. Meanwhile, the Coalition has recovered ground in the latest Newspoll, but is still in an election-losing position as they trail Labor by a wide margin. At least 350 homes in Queensland have been left uninhabitable by tropical cyclone Marcia. Sri Lanka's new PM Ranil Wickremesinghe saysAustralia agreed to turn a blind eye to human rights abuses to secure a deal on asylum seekers. The Department of Agriculture has admitted no extra surveillance of imported frozen berries has been put in place since the recent outbreak that has seen 14 people contract hepatitis A. Yesterday the governor-general officially stripped disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris of his prestigious Order of Australia honours after convictions for indecent assault.
Around the world
Leaked top-secret documents show Benjamin Netanyahu's dramatic claim that Iran was about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by Mossad. At least 70 people died in Bangladesh on Sunday when a ferry carrying 150 passengers capsized after colliding with a trawler on the Padma river. Greece’s new leftwing government will attempt to head off insolvency and a run on the country’s banks on Tuesday by submitting a menu of economic reforms aimed at appeasing its eurozone creditorsand securing a four-month bailout lifeline. A majority of New York police officers say the re-training program they were ordered to undergo after the death of Eric Garner is a “waste of time”.
One last thing
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