A CHILD sex offender fed vegetables, nuts and “fatty and salty” tinned meat because prison authorities would not provide him with fresh halal meat prepared in accordance with Muslim religious laws has won a discrimination case against the Queensland Government.
INVESTIGATORS from Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Commission have scotched claims by an indigenous man that he was severely beaten by police – an allegation that led to a violent riot in Aurukun on western Cape York.
AT any other time it would have marked the pinnacle of Queensland DPP Leanne Clare’s controversial career – a celebration in Canberra with some of the best legal minds in Australia after she was awarded silk.
AN Australian accused of helping to smuggle international conman Peter Foster from Fiji to Vanuatu on a former navy minesweeper has been unmasked as a crooked Sydney solicitor previously jailed for fraud.
FIVE trading days ago someone who goes by the nickname of Jayne delivered a spectacular tip to one of the internet forums dedicated to Australian stocks and their fast-moving day traders.
IF Leanne Clare believes her own statements about the independence of the Office of the Department of Public Prosecutions and her handling of the Mulrunji Doomadgee case, she will draft a brief letter of resignation and make a hasty exit.
A SYDNEY cardiologist whose wife was killed in an execution-style slaying in Uganda has issued a plea to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for urgent diplomatic help to ensure his safety and freedom.
STANDING quietly above the open grave of his murdered wife, Sydney cardiologist Aggrey Kiyingi shuddered as something hard and menacing prodded his lower back.
ROBYN Kina can smile broadly now. Her partner has stood by her these past 13 years. She holds close the nieces and nephews in her mob.
QUEENSLAND anti-corruption officers, whose investigation now embroils NSW Premier Morris Iemma, want to know about a meeting in his Sydney electorate office with a Beattie government minister under investigation over alleged bribery and kickbacks.
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