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Blake Antrobus covers Queensland courts and crime for NCA NewsWire. He began his career in journalism in 2015, migrating from Sydney’s northern beaches to southwest Queensland. He has covered politics, crime, education and general news for newspapers across the state.

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Dr Maria Power also known as Maria Pau is being accused of being a fake Doctor and is an anti vaccination campaigner Pictures from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

Alleged fake doctor’s mask move at court

A woman alleged to have peddled hundreds of bogus Covid exemption certificates while pretending to be a medical doctor has faced court for the first time.

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Reason blind man robbed at gunpoint

A woman has learnt her fate for her role in the botched gunpoint robbery of a legally blind drug dealer, who was seriously shot by her then-boyfriend.

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Commissioner Katarina Carroll at the National Police Remembrance day, Brisbane Botanical Gardens. Picture: Liam Kidston

Court’s decision on Qld jab mandate

A Queensland court has ruled on the legal challenge launched by a group of Queensland police officers and health workers opposing the Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

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FILE IMAGE - Former swimming coach John Wright has been extradited from Western Australia the 78-year-old man will appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court after detectives from the Child Abuse and Sexual Crime Group successfully applied for his extradition from Western Australia. The man was arrested on Wednesday 20 October, 2021 by members of the WA Police Force, following investigations by Queensland Police into a number of alleged indecent dealing offences that took place between 1980 and 1986 in the Brisbane and Rockhampton areas. He will appear in court charged with nine counts of indecent dealing of a child and one count of common assault.

Next move for coach facing child abuse charges

A former elite swimming coach accused of indecently dealing with children in the 1980s will remain behind bars on remand.

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Palmer’s ‘c-bomb’ slip in bizarre rant

Mining billionaire Clive Palmer may have accidentally dropped an expletive while referring to Health Minister Greg Hunt in a bizarre vaccine rant.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, OCTOBER 6, 2021. Melbourne continues in a COVID-19 lockdown. People line up in their cars to be COVID tested at Albert Park. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Crosling

Unvaxxed nurses rush to fight sacking

A group of unvaccinated nurses has taken one of Victoria’s biggest health services to court in a bid to prevent their sacking.

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Man dies after being trapped under bus

Police have confirmed a man in his 20s has died following a serious crash in Sydney’s west where he became trapped under a bus.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - OCTOBER 21, 2021. Abdulrahman Mohamed Rage arrives at the District Court in Brisbane. Rage was sentenced for acts intended to cause GBH, affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm after a 21 year old victim was set upon by the group at a soccer field in October last year. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled

Five words before horror unfolded at football

Four men who viciously bashed a 21-year-old man in a gang-related attack at a busy soccer tournament in Brisbane were motivated by revenge.

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Andrew Cobby is taken into Southport Watch house and charged with the Worongary murder of his wife. Photo: 9 Gold Coast News ##MUST CREDIT MUST CREDIT##

Wife’s chilling cry moments before murder

Audio of a woman screaming and pleading before she was killed will be played to a jury as her estranged husband stands trial accused of murder.

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BRISBANE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 20, 2021: NRL star and former Broncos playmaker Anthony Milford fronted court charged with assaulting two women and a 19yo man. NCA NewsWire / Sarah Marshall

Ex-Broncos star to fight charges

A lawyer for a former Brisbane Broncos player accused of assaulting two women and a man says his client will defend some of the charges.

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