Louisa Rebgetz
Louisa Rebgetz is a journalist based in the ABC's Brisbane newsroom, working as a reporter for radio, television and online. She joined the ABC in 2007 as a journalist in Townsville and has also worked in the ABC's Darwin newsroom.
Lorna Jane sued by ex-worker who was 'bullied over weight'
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A woman who is suing activewear retail company Lorna Jane began to suffer a mental health condition after being bullied in the workplace for her weight, a Brisbane court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, discrimination, brisbane-4000, qld
Alleged drink-driver accused of fatal Christmas Day crash 'doing it tough'
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A man accused of running down a nine-year-old boy on Christmas Day while drunk is struggling to deal with the death, his lawyer says.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, springwood-4127, qld, logan-central-4114
Cop who pulled gun on couple in outback fined $1,500
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A Queensland Police Service senior constable is fined $1,500 over an incident in which he pulled a gun on a couple for allegedly speeding along an outback highway near Longreach.
Topics: police, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, longreach-4730, qld, australia
Jailed ex-minister wants taxpayer-funded superannuation
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Disgraced former Queensland minister Gordon Nuttall tells of the "horrors" of being jailed while arguing in the Supreme Court that he should get access to part of his taxpayer-funded superannuation.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, public-sector, alp, brisbane-4000, qld
Man involved in beer bottle rape given suspended sentence
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A Brisbane man who held down his friend's shoulders while another man sexually assaulted him at an Australia Day party is spared jail for the offence, which was only discovered by the victim when video of the abuse appeared on social media.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, brisbane-4000
Taiwanese pair to be deported over Brisbane slave house scam
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Two Taiwanese men plead guilty to helping run a criminal syndicate using dozens of foreign nationals in Brisbane slave houses as part of a scam targeting China.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, foreign-affairs, courts-and-trials, immigration, brisbane-4000
'Officer thrown through glass window' before accused was shot
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Footage from a police body camera capturing the moment a Brisbane man was shot twice by an officer responding to a domestic dispute, is played to a District Court jury.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld
Revenge porn sex scam lands ex-boyfriend in jail
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A woman who became the victim of an online sex scam at the hands of a former lover tells a Brisbane court she felt humiliated and "a prisoner in her own home".
Topics: pornography, sexual-offences, domestic-violence, courts-and-trials, prisons-and-punishment, brisbane-4000
Acland coal mine expansion to begin new hearings in Land Court
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Hearings will re-open in the case involving the expansion of the New Acland mine on Queensland's Darling Downs, the Land Court rules, following a new report submitted after the conclusion of evidence last year.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, mining-rural, rural, acland-4401, qld
Omar Succarieh's sentence inadequate, court hears
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A Queensland man who provided his brother with funds for Australians to engage in armed hostilities in Syria should have his jail time increased, an appeals court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, brisbane-4000, logan-city-dc-4114
Alleged marriage scam run from Brisbane home 'no chapel of love', court told
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An alleged marriage scam likened to reality television show Married at First Sight operated out of a Brisbane house for more than a year, a District Court jury hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000
Ex-CFMEU boss to defend corruption charges
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Former head of the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union, Dave Hanna, denies he received free work on his house from construction bosses.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, unions, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000, qld
Chris Hurley pleads guilty over assault on female officer
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Suspended Queensland policeman Chris Hurley, who was acquitted of manslaughter over the 2007 death of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island, is fined $500 for assaulting a female police officer at a Gold Coast shopping centre while he was off duty last year.
Topics: assault, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000, robina-4226
Nanny sexually assaulted during brutal bashing
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Police release CCTV footage and more information about an attack on a Polish woman north of Brisbane as they renew their call for witnesses to come forward.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, petrie-4502, qld
Silkworms could hold key to preventing age-related blindness
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Silkworm cocoons may hold the key to preventing millions of people from going blind around the world, with researchers using the silk casings to make implants for those with Age-related Macular Degeneration.
Topics: eyes, animals, research, medical-research, research-organisations, brisbane-4000, qld
Former Billabong boss admitted forging wife's signature, court hears
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A prosecutor tells a Brisbane jury former Billabong boss Matthew David Perrin, who pleaded not guilty to fraud today, broke down at a family meeting, admitting to forging his wife's signature on bank documents and saying he was "going to jail".
Topics: courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, brisbane-4000
'He was the most awful colour': Doctor recalls attempt to get sick asylum seeker off Manus Island
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A sick Iranian asylum seeker on Manus Island missed out on a flight to Port Moresby because he did not have a visa, an inquest into his death hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, brisbane-4000, papua-new-guinea
Doctor wanted sick asylum seeker on Manus Island sent to Brisbane, not Port Moresby
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A doctor involved in the evacuation of a sick Iranian asylum seeker from Manus Island recommended he be flown to Brisbane ahead of Port Moresby due to PNG's lower level of emergency care, an inquest into his death hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, brisbane-4000, papua-new-guinea
'We were trying to get him out': Asylum seeker needed higher care, paramedic tells inquest
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There was a general consensus among staff working at the medical clinic at the Manus Island detention centre that Iranian asylum seeker Hamid Khazaei needed to be provided with higher care, an inquest into his death hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, brisbane-4000, papua-new-guinea
Witness 'lied to save own neck', lawyers for McCulkin murder-accused say
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Defence lawyers for the Queensland man accused of killing the McCulkin family in the 1970s attack the reliability of the key witness.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, brisbane-4000, qld, warwick-4370
'Evil, manipulating' man jailed for life for stepdaughter's murder
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A man found guilty of murdering his stepdaughter in 2014 at a property south of Brisbane is sentenced to life behind bars for her "tragic and horrific" death.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, brisbane-4000, boronia-heights-4124
Union welcomes review into bus driver safety following fatal attack
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The union representing Brisbane City Council bus drivers welcomes the fast-tracking of a review into bus safety following the alleged murder of Manmeet Alisher.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, courts-and-trials, moorooka-4105, qld, brisbane-4000, india
'You attacked a defenceless woman': Sophie Collombet's killer jailed for life
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Benjamin James Milward is sentenced to life in jail for the rape and murder of French student Sophie Collombet, whose naked and battered body was found in an inner-city Brisbane rotunda in 2014.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, crime, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld
QR service delivery chief stood aside over driver shortage
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Queensland Rail formally stands aside the head of train service delivery in response to the driver crisis, while the State Opposition says Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe must fall on his sword.
Topics: rail-transport, public-sector, state-parliament, urban-development-and-planning, brisbane-4000
QR to face 'forensic' probe over driver shortage
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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk flags a "forensic examination" of the Queensland Rail driver shortage and says she is standing by Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe.
Topics: rail-transport, public-sector, state-parliament, brisbane-4000
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