Janessa Ekert Journalist I didnât always want to be a journalist. In fact, when I was younger my dream was to be an archaeologist â who wouldnât want to be like Indiana Jones? However, now that I am a journalist, I couldnât imagine doing anything else with my life.
I love listening to peopleâs stories and sharing them with others.
Iâm a Queenslander through and though. Mackay is the furthest south I have ever lived. Iâm an only child and I was raised in Airlie Beach.
My parents are former boaties; we lived on a 42 foot.
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Subscriber only A Cannonvale man was so far over the legal alcohol limit he was unable to control his car on a busy Airlie Beach road, it will be alleged. Police intercepted the 33-year-old man on Shute Harbour Rd about 11.40pm on February 26 after he was allegedly swerving in and out of the white lines, Whitsunday police officer-in-charge Nathan Blain said. The man allegedly blew 0.227 per cent and his licence was immediately suspended. The man is scheduled to appear in Proserpine Magistrates Court March 15, charged with on driving under the influence. Senior Sergeant Blain said police were ramping up patrols targeting drink and drug driving across the district, and followed a number of drivers being charged since last week.
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A Whitsunday man choked and assaulted his former partner after arriving home to what he claimed he believed was a home invasion.
Minimal details were read aloud during a short sentencing hearing in Mackay District Court.
The victim had arrived at Jarred Leith George Gillieâs home claiming she was returning a shifting spanner â a story Judge Julie Dick did not buy.
âThereâs a background to it, itâs not just straight up gratuitous violence that you sometimes see in these cases,â Judge Dick said, indicating she did not believe the victim had been there to return the tool.