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Domestic violence: Brisbane schoolboys' project raises funds for women's legal service
While Year 12 students across Queensland are celebrating their last day of school today, three young graduates of Brisbane Boys College are busy raising money to combat domestic violence.
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Young men raise the veil on domestic violence through fundraising
While Year 12 students across Queensland are celebrating their last day of school today, three young graduates of Brisbane Boys College are busy raising money to combat domestic violence. Twins Spencer and Zach Hayward and Dhruv Goel started their social enterprise, One Quarter, to raise funds for the Women’s Legal Service which supports domestic violence victims. They’ve raised more than $5,000 so far, but see this as just the beginning of the project. They make T-shirts with the One Quarter logo to try and change the culture and abuse suffered by more than one in four Australian women.
Meat union says exploitation of backpackers worse than increase in backpacker tax
The meat workers union says exploitation of backpackers by unscrupulous labour hire companies is a bigger disincentive to work in Australia, than an increase in the tax rate.
Man jailed for 10 years for cartel trafficking more than 2,500kg of cannabis
A man who had “overall control” of a multi-million-dollar drug cartel is sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Brisbane court.
Government must crackdown on unscrupulous labour hire companies
Prisoners embrace Shakespeare's Macbeth in stage production in Queensland jail
Inmates at a Queensland jail take centre stage in a production of Macbeth, in a “beautiful escape” from prison life.
Man appears in court over fatal Tingalpa shooting, senior police praise 'heroic' officers
Police charge a man with the murder of another man in Tingalpa, in Brisbane’s east, with a senior officer praising the actions of police who disarmed the man as “extremely heroic”.
Tourette Syndrome camp an eye opener for young sufferers
Queensland’s only camp for sufferers of Tourette Syndrome helps them to dream big and overcome any misdiagnosis, depression or bullies.