Court hears resident left coughing and struggling to breathe during Hazelwood fire
Resident Michelle Gatt says the smoke and falling ash from the 45-day fire in the Hazelwood coal mine left her constantly coughing and without a voice.
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NSW Now: Petrol prices to hit 11-year high, man dies in house fire
MORNING BRIEFING: The average petrol price in Sydney is expected to jump to $1.66 by Thursday — the highest level in more than a decade — while a man dies in a house fire in Sydney’s west.
Extinction Rebellion protester charged after suspending herself 10 metres above Brisbane bridge
A climate protester from Extinction Rebellion is charged after suspending herself from a makeshift tripod on Brisbane’s Victoria Bridge blocking peak-hour traffic again.
Hazelwood operators should have foreseen mine fire, prosecutor tells jury as trial gets underway
The operators of Hazelwood Power Station should have been better prepared for a blaze in its open-cut brown coal mine that burned for 45 days five years ago, a court hears.
Former Fukushima bosses cleared of negligence over deadly disaster
Victims of one of the world’s worst nuclear crisis are left disappointed after a court in Tokyo ruled three former Fukushima bosses were not guilty of negligence.
Actions of woman jailed for illegally importing garlic were ‘outstandingly dangerous’
A woman who illegally imported garlic bulbs, marking them as “office supplies”, and put Australia’s agriculture sector at risk will spend at least two months in jail.
University ordered to pay $1.2m compensation to wrongly sacked professor
James Cook University is ordered to pay marine physicist Peter Ridd more than $1.2 million in compensation after he was wrongly sacked, a court rules.
Rogue tyre recycler Tony Di Carlo fined $200k over ‘catastrophic fire risk’
Businessman Tony Di Carlo is fined for breaching environmental protection orders over his Tyremil recycling business in Brisbane, which a court says continues to pose a “catastrophic” fire hazard.
Using the ‘extraordinary emergency’ defence to break the law and save the planet
Charged with traffic offences for blocking Brisbane streets during an Extinction Rebellion protest, this 23-year-old will argue she should be allowed to break the law because climate change is an “extraordinary emergency”….
‘Unrelenting’ workload of 90 cases a day contributed to magistrate’s death, widow says
The widow of a Melbourne magistrate who took his own life last month believes a crippling caseload contributed to the death of her husband, who often heard up to 90 cases a day.