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The families of four missing military personnel killed in a helicopter crash off the Queensland coast have paid tribute to their loved ones, as the grim recovery mission continues.

Those onboard and presumed dead have been identified as Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, Corporal Alexander Naggs, and Warrant Officer Joseph Laycock.

Their bodies are yet to be retrieved after they were onboard an MRH-90 Taipan helicopter that crashed near Hamilton Island at about 11pm on Friday during the Talisman Sabre military exercises

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The family of Nugent remembered him as a much-loved person generous person.

The 24-year-old had always aspired to become an officer in the army, they said.

"Becoming an officer in the Army was a long-held dream for our son, brother and partner Max," the family said in a statement.

"He made that dream a reality through stubborn grit, resilience and a wicked sense of humour. He embodied the values of integrity and honour, which made him a natural fit for a life of service to others.

"His loss leaves an unbearable grief in our hearts."

Lyon, meanwhile, was remembered as being a "devoted father of two and great mate".

"Danniel is a beloved husband, devoted father of two and great mate. Danniel's smile could brighten even the darkest days. His light shone so brightly we cannot imagine a world without it," his family said.

Naggs' partner described him as a "beloved partner, son, brother and friend"

"Alex was an inspiration to his family and those around him. We are heartbroken to lose him so soon," they said.

"Alex was a hard-working, generous and kind man who was always there for his mates."

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Laycock's parents, Joseph Wayne and Dianne, said he had two loves in his life: his military career and his three boys.

"Outside of his Army career, Phillip was a devoted father and enthusiastic mountain biker," they said.

"He was an excellent cook, and prepared the family's Christmas dinner on a number of occasions, with the same meticulous precision he brought to his work – he would shoo us out of the kitchen if we threatened to interfere."

Defence Minister Richard Marles on Monday confirmed "significant wreckage" of the MRH-90 Taipan has been discovered.

"With every passing hour, it is now clear any hope of finding Captain Lyon, Lieutenant Nugent, Corporal Naggs and Warrant Office Laycock alive has been lost," Marles said.

"The tragedies that have taken place in the Whitsundays have transferred from those being of search and rescue to an activity of recovery."

Marles said there will be a full and thorough investigation into the crash but for now, the government and defence force stands with the families of the men.

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Bill Shorten has delivered a stinging rebuke to Scott Morrison over his response to the robodebt royal commission, calling the former prime minister a "bottomless well of self-pity".

The current government services minister, Shorten was scathing of Morrison, who on Monday told parliament that the findings against him were unsubstantiated.

"The purpose of that statement was to frame himself as the real victim of the robodebt royal commission," Shorten told question time on Tuesday.

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"The Member for Cook (Morrison) said, and I quote, that in making their finding, the commission sought to reverse the onus of proof to establish their claim.

"Satire is truly dead in this country, when the Member for Cook complains about the reversal of onus of proof on him, but not the 434,000 people who did have their reverse onus.

"And the Member for Cook then said the royal commission was a quasi-legal process, a new Morrisonian doctrine about the law.

"The royal commission was not quasi-legal.

"It's real. It was constituted by the law. Forty-six days of public hearings, over 100 witnesses under oath…

"The victims of robodebt never had their legal costs paid for. Never had the chance to see the evidence put against them.

"The Member for Cook is a bottomless well of self-pity and not a drop of mercy for all of the real victims of robodebt."

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Morrison was seen shaking his head during Shorten's address and appeared to say "here we go" when he was first mentioned.

On Monday, the former prime minister expressed his "deep regret" for robodebt's impact on millions of welfare recipients, but continued to label any findings against him as "disproportionate, wrong, unsubstantiated and contradicted by clear evidence".

"As minister for social services, I played no role and had no responsibility in the operation nor administration of the robodebt scheme," he said.

He added that he "completely rejects each of the adverse findings against me in the commission's report as unfounded and wrong".

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Two men dramatically arrested in Serbia have been found not guilty of trying to import drugs into Australia, but will be sentenced for attempting to possess them overseas.

David Campbell, 54, and Tristan Waters, 40, were arrested in January 2018 after a meeting with undercover operatives at a luxury hotel in the Serbian capital Belgrade, along with a third Australian, Rohan Arnold, who they were accused of conspiring with.

Footage of their arrests reached Australia before they did but the trio were eventually extradited home.

Arnold was jailed in 2020 for a minimum of 19 years and six months after pleading guilty over the import.

Authorities had allegedly found almost a tonne of pure cocaine, worth more than a billion dollars, concealed in steel beams from China inside a shipping container at Sydney's Port Botany in 2017.

Campbell was then told the shipment had been lost after only one of two containers he expected arrived.

The arrests and eventual extraditions came at the end of a globe-trotting undercover police operation where officers posed as criminals who had happened upon the missing container, eventually luring Campbell to New Zealand to try and retrieve it.

The jury was taken through messaging threads from encrypted devices, including one where Campbell used the identity "importer", to support the Crown's circumstantial case.

Campbell said at trial he imported steel from China on behalf of his former business mentor Arnold and was paid in cattle panels.

Arnold had told him there was a "Chinese asset" hidden inside by the time he sought to retrieve the container, however, he was unaware it was drugs and the undercover operatives never referred to it as such, Campbell said.

Waters pleaded guilty in the NSW District Court to conspiring to possess the illicit drugs but denied any involvement in its importation.

He did not give evidence but his lawyer David Dalton SC said he was brought in as an outside troubleshooter, merely playing the role of a principal at the meeting in Belgrade, pretending to be a high-ranking "heavy" in an international drug syndicate.

Waters was recorded during the meeting lying about having been stabbed with a screwdriver, which Dalton said was done to bolster his "heavy" character and should cause the jury to doubt other things he said, which prosecutors sought to paint as admissions.

Crown prosecutor Sean Flood highlighted Waters expressing familiarity with other members of the encrypted group chat, whose identities were not known, as evidence his role went beyond hired help at a late stage.

The meeting was to exchange funds before the drugs would change hands in Australia.

Dalton said Waters did not appear in the group chats, or more broadly in the crown case before the attempted possession began.

He was also pretending to rank above Arnold in the syndicate's hierarchy when the pair attended the meeting with undercover operatives in Belgrade while Campbell waited outside with a gun, Dalton said.

On Tuesday the jury found Waters not guilty of conspiring to import along with Campbell.

Campbell pleaded not guilty to both counts but the jury found him guilty of the attempted possession.

He said he was threatened into participating in the attempt to possess the drugs, which the jury was told to disregard if they considered those threats came from people Campbell was voluntarily working with.

A jury of six women and six men retired for about two weeks before reaching verdicts.

The pair are scheduled to be sentenced for the attempted possession on October 19.

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Kumanjayi Dixon was walking down a highway to visit family when she was struck and killed by Joshua Mason's car.

In a panic, he called his mother Deborah Mason and enlisted her help to remove Dixon's lifeless body from the road.

But the pair left the dead Indigenous woman's dismembered leg on the Northern Territory's Stuart Highway, triggering a massive police investigation as well as their eventual arrest.

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Mason, 25, pleaded guilty to hit and run and interfering with human remains while his mother, Deborah Mason, 51, pleaded guilty to interfering with human remains and perverting the course of justice in the NT Supreme Court on Tuesday.

On May 30, 2022, Dixon got off the bus at Palmerston, south of Darwin and began walking towards the city.

Joshua Mason hit her at about 8.30pm as she staggered across the highway.

Deborah Mason then helped collect, move and conceal the woman's body in bushland 15km south of the collision site.

Her body was later found partially buried in scrub in Bees Creek on June 1 after the pair were arrested and Deborah Mason took detectives to the grave.

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A traveller driving on the four-lane highway linking Darwin to Alice Springs and Adelaide had spotted the partial leg.

The court heard that when Mason eventually admitted the hit and run to police, he told them: "It's my life, it's my mum's life, and because a drunk idiot wants to walk across a dark road at night time, my life is over."

The maximum penalty for misconduct with a corpse in the NT is two years' imprisonment. Destroying evidence and attempting to pervert the course of justice carry potential three and 15-year terms respectively.

More than 30 members of Dixon's family filled the courtroom, with some travelling from Alice Springs to watch the pair enter their pleas.

Many were too emotional to stay in court and had to be excused as the details of Dixon's body removal were read out.

Other family members read out tearful victim impact statements, including her cousin Carol Dixon.

"My heart has been ripped out of my chest," she said as she stared down at the pair in court.

"No one should ever hear what I have heard about my loved one … you did the wrong thing."

Outside court, Carol Dixon said she hoped her cousin would be remembered as a "beautiful soul".

"I think about her every day," she said.

Joshua Mason will remain in custody and his mother's bail has been extended until the matter returns to court on October 12.

Those looking for support can contact 13YARN on 13 92 76 or the Aboriginal Counselling Services 0410 539 905.

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