Mine owner and former politician Clive Palmer arrived at court all smiles this morning, just as news broke that he was trying to throw out a hearing on the collapse of his company, Queensland Nickel. Mr Palmer had his third day of grilling in the Federal Court over his role in the lead-up to the company’s collapse in January this year. But today, his lawyers got him a High Court injunction hearing to block the probing.
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New youth justice bill to move 17yos out of adult jails introduced to Queensland Parliament
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Geoffrey Jaenke inspecting the yellowed leaves of the beans which have been attacked by two-spot mites.
Paul Jones, Geoffrey Jaenke and Sam Dunlop discuss the booming bugs business
Stan Dunlop visits strawberry farms once a week to investigate how well the predatory mites are working.
When the predatory mites have run out of pest mites to eat they travel up into these cups where they can be collected.
The predatory mites are packed into bottles and delivered to strawberry farms to be distributed on the fields.
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