QUEENSLAND: In a ruling handed down in Canberra on Wednesday, the court rejected arguments that the management plans, which restrict and sale and possession of alcohol, breach both United Nations and federal racial discrimination laws.
TORRES STRAITS: The Queensland government has hit back at claims from Canberra that it is leaving Torres Strait Islander communities high and dry without fresh water.
NATIONAL: A judge has rejected a man’s last-ditch attempt to have his trial for killing an unborn baby thrown out, ruling the legislation was wide enough to protect the early-term fetus.
QUEENSLAND: The state’s child protection inquiry chief has dismissed requests to stand down because of perceived bias over the so-called Heiner affair, in which evidence about the sexual abuse of a girl in state care was destroyed.
FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND: A search for a prospector missing on Queensland’s Cape York, which includes one of the last government employed black trackers, has been abandoned as police follow “other lines of inquiry”.
Qld booze bans don’t breach race laws
QUEENSLAND: In a ruling handed down in Canberra on Wednesday, the court rejected arguments that the management plans, which restrict and sale and possession of alcohol, breach both United Nations and federal racial discrimination laws.