Vic: Nine in court over massive heroin haul

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-2000
Vic: Nine in court over massive heroin haul

Seven men and two women have appeared in court charged with trafficking heroin after
more than six kilograms of the drug was yesterday seized in a series of Melbourne raids.

Prosecutor MICK JONES says all nine are Vietnamese and face charges of trafficking heroin.

Mr JONES says the raids on a number of houses in Braybrook, Springvale, Sunshine, St
Albans, and Deer Park, followed a drug squad operation lasting several months and netted
6.3 kilograms of heroin, drug paraphernalia and money.

He says the prosecution's brief may be delayed because there are 2,000 telephone intercepts
to be translated from Vietnamese.

Magistrate SUSAN WAKELING has remanded the nine in custody to reappear in Melbourne
Magistrates' Court on November 9.

There were no applications for bail.





The charged are Sydney trio GIAC VAN NGUYEN, aged 37, ZANZ VAN LE, aged 24, and 26-year-old
HIEN PHAM as well as Melbourne residents CHINH MAI, aged 20, VAN SOANG VU, aged 42, CUONG
CAO HOANG, aged 36, 47-year-old CUC THI TRAN, 26-year-old DI TRAN, and 45-year-old CAN
TANG.

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NSW: NSW Farmers issue locust plague warning

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2000
NSW: NSW Farmers issue locust plague warning

The New South Wales Farmers' Association today urged growers to be on the alert for locusts.

The warning follows reports by the Plague Locust Commission of a serious threat of
swarms migrating into agricultural areas of NSW, South Australia and Victoria.

KEITH PERRETT, chairman of the NSW Farmers' Association Grains Committee, says vigilance
is needed if damage is going to be minimised.

He says eggs laid in March and April will hatch in spring, and the sooner any sightings
are reported, the sooner the Plague Locust Commission will be able to take action.

Mr PERRETT says band control measures have already been put in place in western NSW,
the Riverina and the South West Plains.

Growers are urged to report all locust sightings to the commission by calling the toll
free number - 1800 635 962.

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WA: Jealous teenager stabbed love rival 47 times, court told

AAP General News (Australia)
02-01-2000
WA: Jealous teenager stabbed love rival 47 times, court told

A Perth court's heard a jealous teenager killed her 15-year-old rival in love by stabbing
her 47 times with a fishing knife.

Nineteen-year-old KELLY RENAE FULLER is standing trial in the West Australian Supreme
Court for the wilful murder of JESSICA LANG at Ms LANG's suburban Bicton home in September
1998.

FULLER has pleaded not guilty, although she has admitted unlawfully killing the younger girl.

Crown prosecutor KEVIN TAVENER has told the court that FULLER was annoyed and jealous
when Ms LANG began seeing rollerskating disc jockey MICHAEL "MYK" BLOOM soon after she
broke up with him.

Mr TAVENER says FULLER told a number of her friends that she wanted to kill JESSICA.

He says FULLER stabbed Ms LANG at the younger girl's on September 24, 1998, with a
fishing knife taken from her father's shed. She then told a friend what she'd done.

The trial continues before Justice KERRY WHITE.

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NSW: DPP to consider charges over Newcastle Disease outbreak

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-1999
NSW: DPP to consider charges over Newcastle Disease outbreak

SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - The Director of Public Prosecutions is reportedly considering whether
to lay charges over the outbreak of Newcastle poultry disease on the New South Wales Central
Coast earlier this year.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Brisbane Water detectives spent seven months
investigating the April outbreak, including allegations a supplier to Inghams lost thousands
of stock months before the official outbreak but failed to notify the Department of Agriculture.

A virulent strain of the disease was uncovered in April, and resulted in a massive
quarantine operation in which millions of chickens were killed.

The outbreak threatened Australia's $1.4 billion chicken industry and cost producers
and the government tens of millions of dollars, the newspaper said.

If a prosecution proceeds it would be the first under the Exotic Diseases of Animals
Act, the newspaper reported.

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NSW: Secret deal alleged on Marsden documents

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-1999
NSW: Secret deal alleged on Marsden documents

A NSW barrister has alleged that a secret deal in which government solicitors gave a
television station details of new sex allegations against Sydney lawyer JOHN MARSDEN had been
an abuse of legal process.

IAN BARKER QC, for Mr MARSDEN, said an agreement to release the documents to Channel 7's
lawyers was reached at a meeting on January 21 this year -- eight days before detectives
interviewed Mr MARSDEN about 12 people making new allegations of paedophilia against him.

He said Channel 7's lawyers, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, were offered the documents by a
lawyer from the Crown Solicitor's office after the TV station had subpoenaed the Police
Commissioner for a wide range of material.

Mr BARKER said Mallesons should never have been given access to the documents and that it
was a deliberate abuse of process.

He said documents had been produced as a result of a secret, off-the-record deal between
Mallesons partner IAN ANGUS and Crown Solicitor staff member PETER SINGLETON.





Channel 7's counsel, HENRIC NICHOLAS QC, is seeking an adjournment to allow investigation
of the 12 new allegations, while Mr BARKER argues they are irrelevant and should be excluded
from the hearing.

The hearing, in which the judge is considering Channel 7's defence after a jury found Mr
MARSDEN was defamed by the station's Witness program, will continue tomorrow.

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QLD: New court house to display indigenous art

AAP General News (Australia)
12-26-1998
QLD: New court house to display indigenous art

BRISBANE, Dec 26 AAP - A $1.3 million court house to be built in the Gulf township of
Kowanyama next year will also provide space to display indigenous art.

State Attorney-General Matt Foley said residents of Kowanyama, an Aboriginal community on
the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, were being encouraged to contribute to the final design
of the project with construction to start in April.

"Involving the community in the design of the building will result in a more appropriate
facility," Mr Foley, who is also Queensland's arts minister said.

The building will include a courtroom, holding cells, a magistrate's chamber and staff
facilities.

Police said the magistrates court had been held in temporary accommodation for some years.

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Main stories in ABC's World Today

AAP General News (Australia)
12-12-2011
Main stories in ABC's World Today

SYDNEY, Dec 12 AAP - Main stories in ABC's World Today:

* Prime Minister Julia Gillard will on Monday promote some of her key political supporters
in a reshuffle of her ministry, following the retirement of Senator Nick Sherry from the
frontbench. Tanya Plibersek and Bill Shorten are expected to be among those elevated to
cabinet, although Mr Shorten's apparent promotion is raising eyebrows within the government.

* The Greens and Coalition are both scathing about the outcome of the international
climate change talks in Durban, where an agreement was reached to move towards a single
global treaty by 2015. While Climate Change Minister Greg Combet has hailed it a "breakthrough",
the opposition says the talks have been a failure because they didn't achieve an immediately
binding agreement.

* Professor Will Steffen, director of ANU's Climate Change Institute and a federal
government science adviser, says the Durban agreement is a major step forward because
of the co-operation of developed and developing nations. But Professor Steffen said the
challenge now is to level-off emissions at the global scale by the middle of the decade
and not wait until 2020.

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