Modernising mayor ‘Mr Brisbane’ dies
OBITUARY Clem Jones Surveyor and former Brisbane lord mayor. Born Ipswich January 16, 1918; died Brisbane December 15, 2007, aged 89.
Hedley Thomas
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Haneef prosecutor demoted
THE prosecutor at the centre of the Mohamed Haneef debacle involving the commonwealth DPP and Australian Federal Police has been punished with a demotion, triggering protests from fellow lawyers and calls for AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty to take responsibility for the mistakes by his officers.
Much ado about nothing
THANKS to the ‘usual suspects’, the Heiner affair is Queenland’s grassy knoll.
RAAF pilot on a high with his super new Hornet
STRAPPED into the cockpit of Australia’s newest fighter jet while soaring across mountain peaks in California’s Yosemite National Park and east over Sierra Nevada, pilot John Haly is putting the $100 million-plus Super Hornet to the test.
Patient not told of surgery ban
A WOMAN who starved to death as a result of radical obesity surgery was operated on by a doctor despite his being banned two years earlier from carrying out such procedures by another Gold Coast hospital.
Mission to save others from mum’s fate
LEESA MacLeod admits she is relentless. A junior high school dropout who lives with her partner in a shed-like home an hour’s drive west of Brisbane, she is also on a mission.
Police supplied ‘bogus intelligence’
A FORMER Sydney lawyer wants a high-level probe into his claims that Australian Federal Police officers gave bogus intelligence to Vanuatu authorities and falsely asserted he was an international narcotics trafficker.
Keelty can’t avoid responsibility
LET’S give Mick Keelty the benefit of the doubt. Let’s presume that his policy and media advisers are strongly influencing his handling of the Mohamed Haneef case, his disingenuous responses and his glass-jawed reproach of critics of his shabby policy and policing.
Lawyer’s own legal ordeal
A LITTLE after 10am, while walking from a gleaming Brisbane Magistrates Court building to his favourite coffee shop yesterday, Peter Russo, criminal defence lawyer and new best friend of Mohamed Haneef, smiled at well-wishers. One sought an autograph. Others approached to say, “Good on you, mate”.
Liberty for Haneef
MOHAMED Haneef has been freed from prison after the Howard Government revoked his detention order and commonwealth prosecutors abandoned their terror proceedings against him amid top-level admissions of serious mistakes.
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