A GYMEA man charged with child pornography and weapons offences was described by police as a "part-time masseuse and practising nudist''.
David Francis Marshall, 60, of the Kingsway, was charged in February last year.
He has since been committed for sentence on 26 charges including possessing unauthorised and prohibited firearms, and making available, possessing, accessing and transmitting child pornography.
A police fact sheet said Marshall had used a publicly available web-hosting facility to make available 118 images of child pornography involving children between the ages of five and 16.
He had opened the web-hosting account in the name Dave Moonbreeze but police traced the IP address of Marshall's home computer to his internet provider and raided his home on February 11.
Police said when they asked if Marshall had child pornography on the premises, he replied that he did.
A search found child pornography on two laptops, two personal computers, two hard drives and a USB memory stick.
Police also found 11 firearms in the home for which Marshall did not have a licence: a Rossi double-barrelled shotgun, three Lee Enfield rifles, a Sterling bolt-action rifle, a Birmingham Small Arms breach-loading rifle, two .22 calibre rifles, a muzzle-loading black powder musket and a Fabrique Nationale pistol.
Marshall is due to be sentenced on May 28.
Qantas accused
THE Transport Workers Union went into bat Wednesday for Hurstville mother Souad Palmer, 56, who was one of 14 female employees whose contracts were not renewed by Qantas last month.
Union representatives attended a Fair Work Australia hearing to try to reverse the Qantas decision to replace some temporary positions with 47 permanent staff.
The airline merged its cabin-cleaning and ground-handling operations at its international division as part of the change and the union claimed Mrs Palmer and 13 other women on rolling contracts were not given the same opportunities for retraining as the men they worked with.
The union argued the female employees were directly discriminated against.
A Qantas spokesman said at the time the airline had been unable to find permanent work for 10 staff who were employed for an agreed fixed term.
"We extended this group's employment by two months in December,'' the spokesman said. ``Due to the loss of a contract for aircraft cleaning and handling with another airline, our labour needs have been reduced.
"Our primary obligation is to protect the jobs of our permanent workforce, which we have done. We absolutely deny that this issue is about excluding women from Qantas. We have an extremely diverse workforce and more than 40per cent of our employees are women.''
Mrs Palmer said she was given five days' notice her contract would not be renewed.
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