The untold story of how a young federal narcotics agent had his career destroyed by corrupt Queensland police with friends in the highest places is revealed in a new book.
February 19, 2021 11:15
Former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told senators he only ceased being fearful of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp once he left office.
“Australians decided to put their names, in extraordinary numbers, to this petition, because they know that something is crook. They actually know something is rotten and bad here,” he told the senate environment and communications references committee on the first day of an inquiry into media diversity, established after a petition Rudd set up against News Corp gained 500,000 signatures.
Rudd giving evidence to the committee
“And they want us as the parliament, or should I say you as the parliament, no longer me, to act on these questions.
Over the last 20 years I ve seen legacy media make the most elementary mistakes which have contributed to the dumbing down of political culture and the hyper -sensationalising and -sexualising of media coverage.
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A key Brisbane bridge linking the CBD to South Brisbane will close permanently to general car traffic on January 24 to make way for Brisbane Metro buses, cyclists and pedestrians.
Victoria Bridge is one of the city s oldest bridges, and the closure to vehicles will be the latest development in the long saga of the Brisbane River crossing point.
The first bridge in the location was announced by Brisbane council in 1861 to connect the rapidly growing city centre with its southern suburbs.
Since the first timber bridge was agreed upon and built – not without controversy – numerous structures have straddled the river at the same location, leading to the existing bridge, built in the 1960s.
In 1948, an Elm Park resident tried a novel approach.
Would-be migrants could move up the queue if they had a sponsor in Australia, who would guarantee them accommodation and support on arrival.
Frank Scruton, of Elm Park Avenue, wrote to the Brisbane Telegraph appealing for someone to nominate his family. Frank was prepared to go anywhere and do anything.
An experienced butcher, he d additional experience as a dock worker, bus conductor, decorator and gardener.
Australia, with a population of only eight million, needed people to fill its empty continent, so Frank enclosed an engaging picture of his four children, aged six to 12.