Before adjourning for sentencing, Judge Timothy Pontius said: "I emphasise very firmly that the fact I'm releasing you on bail should not serve as any sort of indication of what the sentence will be".
Mark Rice-Oxley is international planning editor of the Guardian and author of Underneath the Lemon Tree, a memoir of Depression and Recovery.
Whoever fired at her hadn't been able to track her down with dogs and dispose of the tag because the shot had not immediately been fatal: Betty had flapped on for several miles before collapsing on the ground.
"We look to Australia and other partners that we'll have the opportunity to meet with at the G20 to fulfil the commitments they've made and do more, quite frankly," Rice told the Australian Financial Review in comments published on Monday.
Andrew McAleer was granted a temporary protection order from Rice in January 2013, which was subsequently rescinded by a separate judge following a full hearing.
A detailed affidavit, written by Andrew McAleer, alleged Rice engaged in a "pattern of intimidation and violence" between 2012 and 2013 against the McAleers following a custody dispute between Karyn McAleer and Rice, who have a young child together from their previous relationship.
On Tuesday, the Guardian reported a further complaint made against the lieutenant in September 2013 by Andrew McAleer, the husband of Rice's former partner Karyn McAleer, who alleged he witnessed Rice holding Karyn's stolen mail and attempting to throw it into a public garbage can.
Some outside observers picked up on this peculiar form of pride – a kind of anti-nationalist nationalism – and gently mocked it: Timothy Garton Ash, for instance, spoke of Deutsche Industrie-Normen – a German industrial standard – in "coming to terms with the past"; others crowned the Germans "world champions in remembrance".
All these are in addition to the absurd spectacle of PMQs and the House of Lords, and spadocracy and MPs' expenses, which were mentioned by Timothy Garton Ash.
One dollar a day buys Maria the seeds to plant beans and corn to make tortillas or buy rice imported from the US.
It suggested recent history had created a false sense of security: Tony Blair was mostly miles ahead, and Gordon Brown mostly miles behind, so no poll had been likely to predict the wrong prime minister in a long time.
