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...Rouse was alarmed. Spread out before the Queensland detective one morning in June was a large-scale map of the Sunshine Coast featuring a tight cluster of black marks. They were grouped around an address well known to the pedophile-hunting policeman: the place where a 13-year-old boy had gone missing seven months earlier. Each mark represented the home of a previously unknown suspected pedophile, traced from the data banks of a child pornography company run by the Russian mafia in eastern Europe. "We thought we knew where all the sex offenders were in that area," says Rouse...
...transactions thought to have originated in Australia to the Australian High Tech Crime Centre, hosted by the Australian Federal Police; the AHTCC traced addresses for the suspects on the list, confirmed their identities and forwarded the information to child protection officers around the country. Rouse, operational head of the Queensland Police Service's anti-pedophile unit, Task Force Argos, was one of those recipients. A nine-year veteran of child protection investigations and a father himself, Rouse traces his dedication to catching and convicting pedophiles to a photograph he saw early in his law-enforcement career. It pictured a child...
...like Howard, his brief relationship with the electorate remained a crucial issue to the end. Some believed Latham's inexperience was not a problem. "He has a lot to learn, but who doesn't?" said 75-year-old Margaret Nicol outside a bakery in Caboolture, part of the marginal Queensland seat of Longman. For one 79-year-old in a shopping center in the marginal Melbourne seat of Deakin, Medicare Gold was enough to assuage his doubts. "My wife worries that he's just a boy, but I think he should be given a go." In the New South Wales...
...after pegging so much on it, Labor's message about Howard's truthfulness either wasn't believed or didn't matter. "There's no such thing as an honest politician, so it's not really an issue," says Arron Tomvald, a 33-year-old Liberal voter in Queensland's Longman. There will be questions, too, about Labor's campaign - from an unsuccessful candidate in Victoria, for one. Latham didn't make a single visit to his electorate, the candidate says: the campaign "has felt pretty New South Wales?centric...
...explore in its entirety. Expect to encounter stunning rain forest, burbling creeks and diverse flora and fauna, from aromatic lemon-myrtle blossoms in summer to the striking blue Ulysses butterflies. There are two campsites en route, and all hikers are required to have a camping permit, available from the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service...