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Subscriber only A Queensland woman has had her marriage declared void because her refugee husband was still married to his first wife, who lives overseas, when they wed two and a half years ago. While the husband repeatedly told his wife he was divorced, after she became pregnant he demanded that she accept his first wife as a second wife in their relationship, the Family Court heard. After she refused, she discovered that her husband had transferred $80,000 overseas to the first wife. The husband, 39, who was born overseas, came to Australia by boat as a refugee and was intercepted and detained until he obtained a visa allowing him to work in Australia.
EC’s Jean Mensa going into the dock as NDC files election petition today
Barring any last minute changes, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will today file a petition against the 2020 Presidential result declared by the Electoral Commission (EC) on Wednesday, December 9.
The Herald is informed that the party s lawyers led by Tsatsu Tsikata, will be focusing on the Chairperson of the Commission, Jean Mensa to justify the numbers and percentages she mentioned, as having been obtained by the various Presidential candidates.
This is not to overturn the Presidential results as declared but to establish the actual votes obtained by the two frontrunners in the election; Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and John Dramani Mahama of the NDC.
Too many reports, not enough action for vulnerable children in NSW
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By Julie Hourigan Ruse
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Almost everyone in the NSW not-for-profit sector charged with protecting our most vulnerable children can name where they were in 2008 when they first read Justice Woodâs report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services.
It followed multiple harrowing cases of children known to the then Department of Community Services (now Department of Communities and Justice) dying within weeks of each other.
Justice James Wood inquired into child protection in the wake of shocking cases of neglect.