File photo from Japan's Defence Ministry of the Dongdiao-class electronic surveillance ship. Photo: Japanese Ministry of Defence
Australia correspondent Karen Middleton reports on Australian and US navy personnel involved in a biennial training exercise having to use minimal systems and signals after a Chinese spy vessel sailed down through the Pacific and positioned itself nice and close to the action.
She'll also look at the problem of festival drug deaths, moves to entrench religious freedom in law and evidence police accessed the metadata of journalists almost 60 times this year.
