Criminal charges laid over Japanese exchange student drownings at Fraser Island s Lake McKenzie
TueTuesday 19
updated
WedWednesday 20
JanJanuary 2021 at 12:28am
An extensive air and water search located the bodies of two teenage Japanese exchange students at Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island in 2019.
(
Share
Print text only
Cancel
A school teacher and tour company have been charged with workplace health and safety offences almost two years after two Japanese school students drowned at a lake on Queensland s Fraser Island (K gari).
Key points:
A study tour company, company director and school teacher have been charged with exposing students to a risk of death or serious injury
News by Edward Randell
Premium Content
Subscriber only The pair were found dead beside Lake McKenzie on March 30 having become separated from their group the day before. They had been participants in the Australian Overseas Exchange Program and the visit to Fraser Island was for an eco-tour. They had arrived in Brisbane on March 25 and had travelled to Fraser Island three days later. Tourists Anthony Stave and Andrew Foreman at Lake McKenzie after the bodies of two boys were found. The pair had become separated from their tour group on March 29 and failed to turn up for a head count.