Mulrunji family wins $370,000
QUEENSLAND taxpayers will provide $370,000 in damages to the family of Mulrunji, who died in police custody on Palm Island in 2004.
QUEENSLAND taxpayers will provide $370,000 in damages to the family of Mulrunji, who died in police custody on Palm Island in 2004.
CORRUPTION at telco giant Alcatel was “almost institutionalised” in Kenya and Taiwan, according to a former company executive.
LEGAL advice that led to Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland being cleared over leaking telephone tap intelligence is being kept secret.
THE US government has described the financial penalty it imposed on Alcatel-Lucent as one of the largest fines of its type in US history.
NBN chief Michael Quigley has admitted making more incorrect claims about his past as one of the top executives of French telecommunications giant Alcatel.
NBN chief Michael Quigley has admitted making more incorrect claims about his past as a top executive of French telco Alcatel, which has been punished for corruption.
MICHAEL Quigley was responsible for overseeing Alcatel operations in four countries where company employees paid bribes to corrupt officials.
NBN head Michael Quigley has confirmed he was in charge of a regional division of the telecommunications giant Alcatel while bribes were paid in return for contracts.
TELECOMS giant Alcatel was spared from ongoing investigation by cutting a deal in which the company paid a massive fine to US authorities.
A HOST of public claims made by NBN chief Michael Quigley about French Telco giant Alcatel-Lucent are different from allegations made in US court documents.
THE process behind the hiring of the top executive at the NBN apparently failed to disclose controversial information.
AUSAID reversed a decision to slash funding to an East Timorese program after a warning from President Jose Ramos-Horta.
WIVENHOE Dam is increasingly seen as the chief culprit behind the Brisbane flood.
OFFICIALS bungled a chance to shut down one of Alice Springs’s “animal bars” and have taken more than 18 months to suspend others caught breaching liquor laws.
THE cost of maintaining Australia’s expanding network of onshore detention facilities has exploded under the Labor government.
SEQ Water has denied any deviation from the guidelines in the dam operation manual
The actual capacity of Brisbane’s Wivenhoe Dam for flood storage is significantly less than claimed by the Queensland government
BRISBANE City Council’s top flood engineer recommended a decade ago that Wivenhoe Dam be operated differently as a bigger buffer against flooding.
QUEENSLAND’S senior water managers warned of tension between staff and management over safety at Wivenhoe.
DAVID Goodwin and his family drove up to Wivenhoe Dam on the afternoon of Sunday, January 9, to witness the release of water from the dam’s gates.
MORE serious questions about Wivenhoe Dam were raised yesterday by a senior engineer who claims the Brisbane River flooding was avoidable.
MORE than a million megalitres of water will be let out of the Wivenhoe dam into the Brisbane River over the next week.
THE Wivenhoe Dam’s ability to provide expansive flood protection to the city of Brisbane and surrounding districts was failing yesterday.
QUEENSLAND police who spent five years investigating the scuba-diving death of an Alabama woman on her honeymoon misstated key evidence.
EXCESSIVE bureaucracy, disputes and problems with leasing arrangements have thrown the remote Aboriginal home ownership scheme into chaos.
THE CEO of one of Australia’s largest construction companies, Thiess, has quit the top job weeks after being caught unawares by an industrial spying scandal.
THE public has been repeatedly conned by lurid tales of the honeymoon killer.
HUNDREDS of construction workers have today refused to return to work at the Brumby government’s desalination plant.
BRUCE Townsend was hired by Thiess as a result of his connections with an ally in past covert industrial relations battles, Paul Houlihan.
THE Port Macquarie company accused of dumping toxic waste on the banks of the town’s river has been ordered to clean up the site.
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