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.
Investigations
Alcatel graft ‘almost institutionalised’
CORRUPTION at telco giant Alcatel was “almost institutionalised” in Kenya and Taiwan, according to a former company executive.
Legal advice stored as secret file
LEGAL advice that led to Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland being cleared over leaking telephone tap intelligence is being kept secret.
Alcatel’s graft fine ‘one of US biggest’
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.
I got it wrong, Quigley tells MPs
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 boss admits more incorrect claims
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.
Bribe countries on NBN boss’s watch
MICHAEL Quigley was responsible for overseeing Alcatel operations in four countries where company employees paid bribes to corrupt officials.
I was in charge, Quigley confirms
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.
Deal stopped probes on global corruption
TELECOMS giant Alcatel was spared from ongoing investigation by cutting a deal in which the company paid a massive fine to US authorities.
Quigley and court records at odds
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.
NBN scout silent on inquiry
THE process behind the hiring of the top executive at the NBN apparently failed to disclose controversial information.
President’s threat stops aid cut
AUSAID reversed a decision to slash funding to an East Timorese program after a warning from President Jose Ramos-Horta.
Engineer bores a hole in dam untruths
WIVENHOE Dam is increasingly seen as the chief culprit behind the Brisbane flood.
Chance to end Alice’s era of ‘animal bars’ wasted
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.
Costs of onshore facilities explode
THE cost of maintaining Australia’s expanding network of onshore detention facilities has exploded under the Labor government.
Key dam strategies among censored data
SEQ Water has denied any deviation from the guidelines in the dam operation manual
Cheap dam upgrade reduced its capacity
The actual capacity of Brisbane’s Wivenhoe Dam for flood storage is significantly less than claimed by the Queensland government
Engineer warned of danger from dam
BRISBANE City Council’s top flood engineer recommended a decade ago that Wivenhoe Dam be operated differently as a bigger buffer against flooding.
Staff rifts on safety and supervision
QUEENSLAND’S senior water managers warned of tension between staff and management over safety at Wivenhoe.
Water storage levels ‘made damage worse’
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.
Water releases too low: engineer
MORE serious questions about Wivenhoe Dam were raised yesterday by a senior engineer who claims the Brisbane River flooding was avoidable.
Dam release ‘will be safe’
MORE than a million megalitres of water will be let out of the Wivenhoe dam into the Brisbane River over the next week.
Brimming dam has capital at its mercy
THE Wivenhoe Dam’s ability to provide expansive flood protection to the city of Brisbane and surrounding districts was failing yesterday.
Death on the reef: evidence slanted
QUEENSLAND police who spent five years investigating the scuba-diving death of an Alabama woman on her honeymoon misstated key evidence.
Delays stymie remote housing
EXCESSIVE bureaucracy, disputes and problems with leasing arrangements have thrown the remote Aboriginal home ownership scheme into chaos.
Thiess boss quits in wake of spy row
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.
Reef dive drowning murder is a fantasy
THE public has been repeatedly conned by lurid tales of the honeymoon killer.
Desal workers stay out over spying row
HUNDREDS of construction workers have today refused to return to work at the Brumby government’s desalination plant.
Ally hired Townsend
BRUCE Townsend was hired by Thiess as a result of his connections with an ally in past covert industrial relations battles, Paul Houlihan.
Toxic waste clean-up order
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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