By Martin HickmanRebekah Brooks got her personal assistant a job at a newspaper in Australia owned by Rupert Murdoch after she removed boxes of notebooks from archives on the eve of the closure of the News of the World, the hacking trial heard today.Cheryl Carter had been weeks away from taking up a secretarial job at the Sunday Times in Perth when she was arrested in January 2012 on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.In an interview with police after she was arrested at dawn, she denied that she had been helped to get the job as a reward for helping Mrs Brooks conceal evidence from detectives investigating phone hacking at the NoTW.The notebooks - which have never been found after they were withdrawn from NI's archives on 8 July 2011 - are at the centre of the Crown's claim that Mrs Brooks and Mrs Brooks conspired to pervert the course of justice.During her third interview with officers from Operation Weeting on 6 January 2012, Mrs Carter was asked: "Is it fair to say that when we last spoke you said that Rebekah Brooks helped you get that job in that newspaper?"She replied: "Yep. She spoke to John Hart again, who is in charge of some of the Australia papers. I do not know what she said but when I went there, they said 'look you know, you can start as a general secretary, if you want'."She denied that there was anything suspicious about the removal of the boxes, which she told the archivist contained mostly her own, rather than Mrs Brooks's, notebooks.The boxes had been archived in 2009 as: "All notebooks from Rebekah Brooks (nee Wade) 1995-2007.”Detective Sergeant John Massey asked her: "You did not think that taking possession of seven boxes marked up as Rebekah Brooks the day after the paper had announced that it was closing, and then getting rid of them, was something that would put you in a very difficult position?"Mrs Carter, who was Mrs Brooks's PA for 16 years, replied: "No, because I knew that they were mine, so I knew that I was going to return anything, which I did, that was hers."Det Sgt Massey continued: "OK. So, the inference that you were doing it on behalf of your employer, to remove or destroy material that could implicate her or could be of use to the police... there is no substance to that. Is that what you are saying?"Mrs Carter replied: "No, because... because I, like I say, I knew what was in those boxes."Det Sgt Massey returned to the issue of the job in Australia, which Mrs Carter said would have been a junior role with a salary of £30,000.He asked Mrs Carter: "The subsequent decision by yourself and your family to move to Australia, with some employment, initiated and assisted in some way by Rebekah Brooks of News International... there is nothing suspicious in that?""Absolutely," she replied. "I don't really want to work for the paper, I need a job, I have lost my livelihood..."Mrs Carter and Mrs Brooks deny conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The trial continues.