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Premium Content Subscriber only A Gold Coast man with little criminal history has been jailed for nine years for attempting to smuggle 3.8kg of cocaine into Australia from Thailand, with Border Force agents at Gold Coast Airport having no trouble finding the packages stuffed into his suitcases' lining. Palm Beach man Michael Alexander Curtis, 36, pleaded guilty in Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday to the Commonwealth charge of importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug. His Legal Aid defence counsel, Ed Whitton, told the court it was a "tragedy" Curtis, a nondescript agri...

FW Inventions Competition 2021: Workshop-built arable implements See below for the best of the entries into this year’s Farm Inventions Competition. James Davies’ fertiliser bar Keen to get some late nitrogen onto his maize crops to boost cob growth, Shropshire grower James Davies built a custom applicator to place nutrients at the base of the plant. A conventional spreader would likely cause serious scorching to the plants, so he came up with a system to gently place fertiliser near the roots. The starting point was an old Stanhay beet drill, which was stripped down, leaving just the hyd...