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Mr Green was a tenant in a property in Brisbane, Queensland, of which Hatchy was the property manager.The tenancy ended and a dispute arose between Mr Green and Hatchy. Hatchy subsequently filed in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal for compensation. s.416 of Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act required the parties to enter into a conciliation process before legal ...
Case opinions (6:1) The Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003 is valid (per Gleeson CJ, McHugh, Gummow, Hayne, Callinan and Heydon JJ) Fardon v Attorney-General (Qld) was a case decided in the High Court of Australia regarding the separation of powers in Australia .
The case was closely related to another proceeding in the High Court (Mabo v Queensland (No 2), [4] decided in 1992) which was a dispute between the Meriam people (of the Mer Islands in the Torres Strait) and the Government of Queensland, in which several Meriam people, principally Eddie Mabo, contested that they had certain native title rights over the Murray Islands.
The Inquiry recommended that state governments must open their archives to improve access, fund awareness campaigns, and provide legal assistance to potential claimants. Stolen wages commissions were set up in Western Australia (March–November 2012 [4]), Queensland (2015 [5]), and New South Wales (2004–2011 [6]). [7] [8]
Wotton v Queensland (the Palm Island Class Action case) is a class action lawsuit brought against the State of Queensland and the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service on behalf of 447 Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders who live on Palm Island in Queensland, Australia.
McGregor's assailant was never identified, and the case remains one of Melbourne's most infamous cold cases. [60] [61] The brutality of the murder was such that a pathologist described her injuries as being like those suffered by plane crash victims. In 1978 a reward of $50,000 was offered to help solve the murder. [62] 1978 Mary Anne Fagan
Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen, [1] was a significant court case decided in the High Court of Australia on 11 May 1982. It concerned the constitutional validity of parts of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, and the discriminatory acts of the Government of Queensland in blocking the purchase of land by Aboriginal people in northern Queensland.
The Murder of Betty Shanks is one of the oldest and most notorious unsolved murder cases in Queensland, Australia. [1] On the night of 19 September 1952, Betty Shanks was brutally murdered while walking home in Grange, Brisbane, after getting off a tram. Her body was discovered the next morning, leading to Queensland's largest criminal ...