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2026-10-13 · ABC News (AU) · Environment

Man dies at popular Qld swimming spot

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2026-11-02 · ABC News (AU) · Other

Man crushed beneath boulder while fossicking

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2026-11-02 · ABC News (AU) · Crime & Law

Man accused of holding woman captive

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2026-10-13 · ABC News (AU) · Crime & Law

Girl, 15, accused of stabbing British tourist in Cairns

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2026-10-07 · ABC News (AU) · Crime & Law

Farming family's trusted bookkeeper jailed for $2.8m fraud

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2026-10-02 · ABC News (AU) · Crime & Law

Bookkeeper admits defrauding $2.8m from farming family

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2026-08-20 · ABC News (AU)

🔮 Judge Dean Morzone KC found an investigating officer's decision to insert a paragraph into the complainant's statement created a "fundamental defect" that would prevent a fair trial. assertive

2026-09-14 · ABC News (AU)

🔮 An inquest into Ms Butterfield's disappearance began today in Cairns, examining whether she may still be alive, and the adequacy of the police investigation into her suspected death. assertive

2026-09-15 · ABC News (AU)

🔮 Mr Eaton said he would have been "surprised" to find any biological material given the time that had passed. assertive

2026-09-19 · ABC News (AU)

🔮 To some, Ms Butterfield appeared troubled in the lead-up to her disappearance, telling friends and acquaintances her children would be better off if she left town. assertive

2026-09-23 · ABC News (AU)

🔮 The inquest has heard Ms Butterfield's landline made frequent calls to the number of a Cairns man named Victor Varga in the weeks before she went missing but police didn't follow that up until two decades later. What's next? Lawyers are due to make submissions next month before Coroner Stephanie Williams considers her findings. It took police more than 20 years to speak with a man who likely had frequent phone contact with missing Far North Queensland mother Joanne Butterfield in the weeks before she disappeared, a coronial inquest has heard. assertive

2026-10-02 · ABC News (AU)

🔮 As members of the Johnston family started new businesses, Lawson would begin defrauding them, hiding payments on the books under the names of false employees, the court heard. assertive

2026-10-07 · ABC News (AU)

🔮 "Your extravagance included spending almost $1 million of the money you stole on retail expenditure," Judge Treviño said. "A quarter of a million of that sum on clothing and shoes alone." A forensic investigation could not account for $300,000 but the court heard Lawson accepted she used the Johnstons' money to buy into a clothing boutique. " assertive

2026-10-13 · ABC News (AU)

🔮 Police say a report will be prepared for the coroner. assertive

2026-11-02 · ABC News (AU)

🔮 Police allege Far North Queensland man Ryan Symonds detained woman at gunpoint In short: It is alleged Ryan Symonds, 34, held a woman against her will at gunpoint and assaulted her multiple times, before she escaped on Saturday morning. Mr Symonds was arrested north of Port Douglas on Monday afternoon, about two hours after police made a second public appeal for information into his whereabouts. assertive

2026-11-02 · ABC News (AU)

🔮 A report will be prepared for the coroner. assertive