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Gold Coast crime: Police target hoons during Glitter Strip operation  Gold Coast Bulletin Source link

Qantas had long been planning to outsource its ground workers before the airline moved to combat the COVID-19 fallout, the Transport Workers Union has argued. Some 2500 jobs held by baggage handlers, ramp workers, and cabin cleaners across 10 airports including Sydney and Melbourne have been outsourced to sub-contractors. Qantas’ “extremely severe … cash burn”

A man will spend five months behind bars for reaping more than $320,000 off the labour of illegal migrants paid as little as $14 an hour at a Victorian farm. Sarith Kit was a manager at Vizzarri Farms at Koo Wee Rup, where 89 workers were found during a 2016 raid by police and border

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Counter-terrorism detectives have raided three properties after racist neo-Nazi graffiti was spotted near a playground in Brisbane’s south. It will be alleged a footpath at the Calamvale District Park was spray painted with racist material, while a neo-Nazi banner was hung from a nearby tree in early February. Officers from the Counter-Terrorism Investigation Group seized

John Higgs was an important part of an exceptional plot to import a record amount of ecstasy into Australia, but judges found nothing exceptional about his appeal bid. The 74-year-old is serving an 18-year prison sentence over the 2007 import of 15 million ecstasy pills in tomato tins. The former client of turncoat Lawyer X

A former church leader has appealed his conviction and sentence for raping and indecently assaulting young choir members . Shartiel Nibigira was sentenced to 11 years in jail after being found guilty on 21 charges. The father-of-eight committed the offences at a house during choir practice, or while the girls were transported for practices or

Criminals walk free as parole board drowns in backlog of 4200 applications  Chronicle Source link

Police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly held a woman at knifepoint before stabbing her in the hand and dragging her along a road in a horror carjacking in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs last month. The 46-year-old woman was sitting in her parked Mazda CX-9 on Kerrie Road in Glen Waverley about 8.40pm

A Royal Commission into the conduct and suitability of Crown Resorts will get underway in Western Australia today, the second such Royal Commission now taking pace following the launch of a similar inquiry in Victoria last month. As previously reported by Inside Asian Gaming, Western Australia’s Royal Commission will work with a mandate to explore