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SYDNEY, Feb 1 AAPWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to put her foot down and offer him protection from the US government.

The whistleblower made the comments as he prepared to face a London court next week for the start of legal proceedings to have him extradited to Sweden on possible sexual assault charges.

Supporters claim the charges have been trumped up to silence him.

"Gillard needs to declare publicly that this is not an acceptable treatment of an Australian organisation. WikiLeaks is registered in Australia," Assange told the Seven Network.

"Nor is it acceptable treatment of an Australian."

The US government is looking at whether the whistleblower can also be charged over the release of classified documents on his WikiLeaks website.

Assange said he wanted to return home to Australia with a guarantee he would not be handed over to the US government.

"I'd like to return immediately," Assange said on Tuesday.

"I would have returned to Australia in November, but our view and our intelligence was that it was not safe in Australia."

Assange descr ibed WikiLeaks as a "source protection agency".

Earlier on Tuesday, Assange's mother said Ms Gillard must stand up the US, adding the Australia-US alliance could survive some honest criticism of its handling of the matter.

"She's got many people in Australia who don't follow her position on this," Ms Assange told AAP.

"There is a lot of dissention among her ranks in the Labor Party over it.

"She has to be a true leader and not a sycophant of the US and in fact maybe help the US realise their freedom of speech is one of the most important attributes of their culture."

Mrs Assange also called for donations to a new legal defence fund for her son, set up after his accounts were frozen.

SYDNEY, Feb 5 AAP Supermarket giant Coles has promised not to import bananas despite the widespread damage to nor th Queensland's crops caused by Cyclone Yasi.

Growers feared that the big supermarkets would begin importing the fruit after estimates that 75 per cent of the nation's banana supply was affected by Thursday's cyclone.

B u t C o l e s s a i d t h e i n d u s t r y ' s preparedness means recovery from the cyclone may not take as long as previously expected.

"Coles has commit ted not to seek imported bananas in the wake of Cyclone Yasi," the company said in a statement on Saturday.

Queensland's banana industry took a huge hit in 2006 when Cyclone Larry swept over the state, wreaking havoc on farms and causing major supply shortages.

It led to some importation of frozen bananas from Asia.

The federal government last week said it would not relax strict quarantine laws in the event that more importations were needed after Cyclone Yasi.

But the decision by Coles not to import the fruit this time around appears to be good news for domestic farmers, although consumers still face big price increases.

"We had more warning with Cyclone Yasi and so could get more bananas into storage," Coles merchandise director John Durkan said.

"Many of our growers also cut their trees down, which means they will regrow much faster than had they simply been knocked down by the cyclone."

But he warned that prices for the fruit would rise.

Woolworths has more than doubled the shelf price of the fruit to almost $6 a kilo.

The retai ler said the pr ice r ise is justified because it is in line with the new

wholesale market price and will allow it to pay farmers a higher rate.

CANBERRA, Feb 4 AAPShoppers are going to feel the effects of Cyclone Yasi and the summer floods in the hip pocket, but the economy remains on a strong growth path, Treasurer Wayne Swan says.

The economy will be enjoying a steamy rate of growth by the end of 2011, despite the impact of natural disasters in the near-term, according to latest estimates by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).

In its latest quarterly monetary policy statement, released on Friday, the central bank upgraded its annual gross domestic product (GDP) for December 2011 to 4.25 per cent.

This was up from an already healthy estimate of 3.75 per cent it predicted in November, and well above trend-growth of around 3.25 per cent.

"Yes we're facing challenges, and yes they were made worse through (Cyclone) Yasi," Mr Swan told reporters in Brisbane on Friday.

"But the underlying fundamentals of the Australian economy are strong and they will not knock the Australian economy off its medium-term course."

But the Reserve Bank also expects inflation will return to the top of its two to three per cent target band quicker than previously forecast.

And that is even before tak ing into account the price implications of the cyclone that have severely damaged sugar and banana crops,

Mr Swan said based on initial estimates, inflation could rise by a further quarter of a percentage point from the cyclone's impact - comparable to the banana price shock after Cyclone Larry in 2006.

"Of course it hits your pocket, it hits

at the checkout, no doubt about that - it makes life tougher for a lot of people," the treasurer said.

The Reserve Bank reiterated comments made after Tuesday's board meeting that, like in the past, it would "look through" the short-term effects of these natural disasters when setting monetary policy.

Still, the extent of the recovery suggests that the central bank could be looking to raise interest rates again in the next few months.

"It seems to us that the flood rebuilding effor t will boost aggregate demand when the economy already has little spare capacity," JP Morgan chief economist Stephen Walters said.

"This means the wage and inflation risks have intensif ied, boosting - rather than diminishing - the chances of a hike before mid-year."

Several economists are predicting an interest rate rise in May, while financial markets are pricing in around a 50 per cent chance of a 25 basis point increase in the cash rate to 5.0 per cent in August.

Aside from the implications of the floods and cyclone, the central bank painted a rosy outlook for the economy.

It expects the unemployment rate will continue to grind lower after finishing 2010 at 5.0 per cent, while the continued appreciat ion of the dol lar will put downward pressure on inflation.

"(But) the forecast strengthening in private demand and the tightening labour market are expected to lead to a pick-up in ... inflation later this year," the Reserve Bank said.

The central bank said resource sector investment would be at least as strong as earlier expected.

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SYDNEY, Feb 2 AAPPaul Ter roni faked his own death in Ecuador to avoid driving charges and nearly four years later he found himself in a Sydney court being sentenced for those offences.

However, Ter roni, who was al ready behind bars for crimes relating to his feigned death, on Wednesday became a free man.

I n Syd ney 's Cent r a l L oca l Cou r t , Magistrate Julie Huber said she would backdate his sentence, meaning a fresh six-month term imposed by her effectively ended in March, 2010.

Terroni, who appeared in court via audio visual link from Parramatta Correctional Centre, was supported in court by family who later said they were "happy that it is over".

Last month, the 30-year-old Sydneysider was imprisoned for a minimum of 16 months after pleading guilty to trying to obt a in money by de c e pt ion and possessing foreign travel documents not issued to him.

That term, which had also been backdated to his arrest in September 2009, expired in January but he was refused bail to face court for the driving charges.

M s H u b e r s e n t e n c e d Te r r o n i t o s i x months ja i l for d r i v i n g wh i l s t disqualif ied and another six months, to be served concurrently, for using a false instrument with intent.

He was convicted without penalty for giving a false name to police and speeding.

Terroni's barrister, Simon Buchen, said Terroni already had a number of driving offences on his record when he was pulled over by police in Alexandria in June 2006.

Facts tendered to the court showed his licence had been disqualified for ten years to 2019, and that he had paid a friend $2,000 to buy the false one.

A hearing date was set for those matters but Terroni didn't show up. Instead, he moved to Ecuador with his wife, fearing he would be jailed.

The following year, his uncle obtained a death certificate stating Terroni had died in

April 2007 "as a result of drowning in the Coaque River, in Pedernales".

Te r r o n i t h e n t r i e d t o o b t a i n h i s superannuation and collect a payout on his life insurance, which stood at $238,800.

His mother, Diana Terroni, is alleged to have wr it ten a let ter to her son's superannuation company notifying them of his death.

The claim was later withdrawn and Terroni was arrested in 2009.

He has been in custody ever since.Diana Terroni, who is expected to defend

charges relating to her alleged role, said after the hearing: "He is out, he is out."

"We are going to pick him up now," she told reporters.

"Yes, yes we are very happy that it is over."

SYDNEY, Feb 1 AAPA r e t i r e d p o l i c e p r o s e c u t o r w i l l investigate the bungle in which a Golden Guitar went to the wrong artist at the 39th Country Music Awards of Australia.

Tamworth-based Ian Burkinshaw will start making inquiries on Thursday into how country music's biggest award, for Album of the Year, was presented to Lee Kernaghan instead of Graeme Connors at a ceremony in Tamworth last month.

The Country Music Associat ion of Australia (CMAA) publicly admitted the mistake within 24 hours, saying it was "incredibly sorry" and acknowledging Connors had won the award for his album, Still Walking.

CMAA chairman Rod Laing said the association's board was "embarrassed" that the wrong envelope had been handed to host Ray Hadley at the ceremony.

But the CMAA had earlier insisted that Kernaghan was the rightful recipient for his album Planet Country.

General manager Cheryl Hayes denied the award had gone to the wrong person, telling AAP on the night of the awards that there had been a printing error on "Kernaghan's" trophy.

"Unfortunately what happened was we got the wrong printing on the trophy, so that's being changed," she told AAP, which had earlier been sent a media release stating that Connors - not Kernaghan - had won the award.

She said the trophy had been taken away to be fixed because it wrongly gave the year as 2010, instead of 2011, and referred to the 38th awards, rather than the 39th.

T h e C M A A we b s i t e a l s o n a m e d Kernaghan as the award recipient.

L a i n g s a i d B u r k i n s h a w w a s a n independent investigator who would find out how the mistake happened, why it was not immediately corrected and whether there was an attempt to cover it up.

"If there is something that is certainly not right, if there is an alleged cover-up, if that's proven to be true, well, there's got to be action, especially if the board want to retain their credibility and the credibility

of the awards as well," Laing told AAP.Burkinshaw will be given a list of people

to interview and will report back to the CMAA board after making his inquiries.

"Of course, this is not a court of the law. If someone chooses not to be part of it, I guess, that's a reality," said Laing.

He said the credibility of the awards would depend on how many people were involved in any alleged cover-up, but the Golden Guitars could "absolutely" recover and were "bigger than any mistake".

"I'm not going to tolerate a cover-up that's intentional," he said.

"I don't think the fans would want that and I certainly know the artists don't want that."

Laing said Connors had yet to be officially presented his award.

Connors' publicist and associate Phil Manning said he hoped the investigation would answer quest ions as to what happened on the night, but he said the bungle didn't "stack up to one of the major problems of the world at the moment".

SYDNEY, Feb 3 AAPThe day her husband was arrested and charged with drug possession was the worst of her life, NSW Education Minister Verity Firth says.

Ms Firth's husband, Matthew Chesher, 44, was the chief of staf f to Roads Minister David Borger when he was allegedly caught in a drug transaction with another man in Glebe last Friday evening.

Speaking publicly on Thursday after three days of annual leave, Ms Firth

said she was "completely shocked" by the alleged incident.

"Friday night was probably the worst night of my life. It was the worst night of my life," she told reporters in Sydney.

" I a m a ng r y, I a m hu r t a nd I a m disappointed.

"But I also love my husband."

Ms Firth said her husband, who resigned f rom his job on Satu rday, had also suffered.

Asked if she had ever taken drugs herself, Ms Fir th said she had done nothing wrong.

"I have done nothing wrong, I have nothing to apologise about, my conscience

is absolutely clear," she said."My husband has admitted that he has

made a mistake. He has paid for that mistake."

She said she hoped voters in her inner west electorate of Balmain would judge her on her actions and achievements as a Labor MP.

Mr Chesher is due to appear in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on April 1, well after the March 26 state election charged with possessing a single ecstasy tablet.

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