Police Charge Hacker Of Francis Abbotts Files

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A SYDNEY woman faces up to two years’ jail after being charged over computer hacking that led to student records about a $60,000 scholarship granted to Tony ­Abbott’s daughter being leaked to the online magazine New Matilda.

NSW police have charged Freya Newman, a 21-year-old communications student from the University of Technology, Sydney, with unauthorised access to restricted data held in a computer.

Ms Newman was served with a court attendance notice at her home on Monday night to appear on the charge before a magistrate next month.

Police involvement follows a complaint by management of the Whitehouse Institute of Design that its computer system was hacked on May 20, a day before New Matilda published an article claiming it had documents contradicting assurances by the Prime Minister that one of his daughters received a scholarship based on merit.

The New Matilda article prompted controversy over the selection process used to award a scholarship to Frances Abbott, and the magazine has criticised the Prime Minister for not declaring the grant on his register of interests.

NSW police pursued the institute’s complaint with a criminal investigation that concluded with the charge against Ms Newman under section 308H of the NSW Crimes Act, an offence carrying a maximum of two years in jail.

During the police investigation, the Whitehouse Institute handed over CCTV footage and email evidence that allegedly identified Ms Newman, who was working as a part-time night ­librarian for the institute in May when computer files were ­accessed.

It has been alleged Ms Newman gained unauthorised access to the files of Ms Abbott and more than 500 other students.

New Matilda editor Chris Graham lauded the “brave sources” who provided his publication with leaked information in a comment piece published on Monday.

[the_hawk*]

She should have been rewarded for making the info public as its in the publics interest to know how corrupt our pollies are and the back door deals and sense of entitlement these people have at the expense of the ordinary people. 

[nero_bolt]

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@the_hawk* wrote:

She should have been rewarded for making the info public as its in the publics interest to know how corrupt our pollies are and the back door deals and sense of entitlement these people have at the expense of the ordinary people. 

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She is a CRIMINAL, she committed a CRIME

But seems the left like criminals and support them...

Any employer in the future will as they do now days Google her name.....

What employer would want to trust a CRIMINAL like her with a job.

[debra9275]

the court said it wasn't a crime. and that she has no criminal record  to be recorded against her name

[the_hawk*]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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@the_hawk* wrote:

She should have been rewarded for making the info public as its in the publics interest to know how corrupt our pollies are and the back door deals and sense of entitlement these people have at the expense of the ordinary people. 

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She is a CRIMINAL, she committed a CRIME

But seems the left like criminals and support them...

Any employer in the future will as they do now days Google her name.....

What employer would want to trust a CRIMINAL like her with a job.

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What is a crime is that a scholarship was given to someone who dint need one and deprived a deserving person of one.

Scholarships are not for people of means

They are for gifted people who would other wise miss out and this was stolen from a person who needed it. that was a real crime.

While what this whisleblower did may be technically against some law that the rich have dreamt up to hide their mis deeds behind the bigger crime was steeling this sholarship from a poor person which is a far bigger crime.

then using his (Tony) politcal position to make sure the wistleblower paid for spilling the beans is also a crime, its called coruption, if it didnt involve his family that would have never gone to court, again using his sense of entitlement has cost tax payers money by using the police and courts time for his personal payback   

[azureline**]

Agreed, no cime, no record, not a criminal and she didn't HACK anything, she used someone elses's log in............... obviously she had that with their agreement.

[lloydslights]

Thanks am*3 for the links.  I will read into them to find my answers.

DEB

[i-need-a-martini]

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@am*3 wrote:
Private colleges aren't going to get the Govt funding that they were promised in the Budget either. There will be a delay of three years.
By then the current Govt could be gone.

Govt backsdown on some higher education reforms

- delay the expansion of Commonwealth funding to private colleges by three years;

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I wonder if Leanne Whitehouse would have been so generous with her exclusive sponsorship offering if she had known this?

I suspect not.

And what does it say about Abbott who made a committment to Whitehouse, then is 'rewarded' with free education for his daughter, and then when she finishes her degree renegs on his committment??

[cherry*135]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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@the_hawk* wrote:

She should have been rewarded for making the info public as its in the publics interest to know how corrupt our pollies are and the back door deals and sense of entitlement these people have at the expense of the ordinary people. 

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She is a CRIMINAL, she committed a CRIME

But seems the left like criminals and support them...

Any employer in the future will as they do now days Google her name.....

What employer would want to trust a CRIMINAL like her with a job.

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No she isn't a criminal, nor did she commit a crime., nor does she have a  criminal record

She will get just as much work as the next person.

She exposed a 'truth' and that is what some people can't stand.

[cherry*135]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:
Private colleges aren't going to get the Govt funding that they were promised in the Budget either. There will be a delay of three years.
By then the current Govt could be gone.

Govt backsdown on some higher education reforms

- delay the expansion of Commonwealth funding to private colleges by three years;

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I wonder if Leanne Whitehouse would have been so generous with her exclusive sponsorship offering if she had known this?

I suspect not.

And what does it say about Abbott who made a committment to Whitehouse, then is 'rewarded' with free education for his daughter, and then when she finishes her degree renegs on his committment??

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Agree.

The private colleges won't be happy with Abbott's backtracking on his promises.

The current Govt has also been slashing courses in TAFE's with the intention of private colleges taking up the slack. Where does that leave prospective TAFE students now.. and for the next 3 years?

[gleee58]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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@the_hawk* wrote:

She should have been rewarded for making the info public as its in the publics interest to know how corrupt our pollies are and the back door deals and sense of entitlement these people have at the expense of the ordinary people. 

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She is a CRIMINAL, she committed a CRIME

But seems the left like criminals and support them...

Any employer in the future will as they do now days Google her name.....

What employer would want to trust a CRIMINAL like her with a job.

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Get over yourself.  She exposed a rort that shuld have been declared to parliament. I wonder if he claimed her as a dependent on his tax return while she was getting paid to study.