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She was jailed for four years for pushing ice. She argued this was too harsh. Now a decision has been handed down.
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She was jailed for four years for pushing ice. She argued this was too harsh. Now a decision has been handed down.
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Premium Content Subscriber only A man jailed for possessing large quantities of cocaine, methamphetamines and marijuana hopes to stay away from drugs when released from prison so he can help care for his three children after their mother died last month in a crash. Kody John Cook, 34, was sentenced in the Supreme Court in Rockhampton on April 28 for possessing the drugs, along charges of producing a dangerous drug, possessing firearms and ammunition and items used in the commission of a drug crime. Cook pleaded guilty to the charges which arose from police searches in the Maryborough area ...
Premium Content Subscriber only A Mackay man found himself in a hot mess after he could not explain to hospital staff how he suffered burns to 20 per cent of his body. Mackay Supreme Court heard on Thursday how Dieter Dean Stephens presented at Mackay Base Hospital's emergency department at 11am on August 21, 2019. The 23-year-old was taken to intensive care with face, eyes, neck, hands and feet injuries. "Fortunately, your airways were not compromised," Justice Graeme Crow said. The court heard when Stephens could not explain the burns, hospital security alerted police. "Police attende...
Premium Content Subscriber only Lawyers for Gladstone Ports Corporation continue their efforts to have a class action case against the government-owned entity thrown out by way of 400-year-old torts. The lawyers have filed an application with Australia’s High Court, asking for the decision of the Queensland Court of Appeal to be set aside, which upheld the decision by Supreme Court in Rockhampton’s Justice Graeme Crow on September 13, 2020. Government-owned GPC is being sued by more than 150 people (fishers) in Queensland and New South Wales – from Bowen to Sydney including Keppel Bay, ...