A woman who claimed the mouse plague rebate 120 times using a different bank account and email address for each claim, will serve 300 hours of community service and be forced to pay back the money.
It’s a wide brown land for me: Meeting a police prosecutor from the Riverina
By Stefanie Costi|27 April 2021
Lawyers who are considering moving to the country, but are worried that their legal careers may take a hit, should learn from those who are thriving as police prosecutors in regional areas, writes Stefanie Costi.
Sergeant Jason Tozer was coming to the end of his one-year term as an associate to Magistrate Campbell in the ACT Magistrates Court in 2009. Unsure of where his career was headed next, Mr Tozer recalled a conversation he overheard while working as a paralegal at the ACT Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. “A new prosecutor had just started and I heard some of the staff talking about him,” Mr Tozer recollected. “I heard one of them say ‘I think he used to be a police prosecutor’”.