A union safety official says the deaths of two construction workers at Brisbane’s Eagle Farm Racecourse are another example of why Queensland must make industrial manslaughter an offence.
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Eagle Farm construction deaths: Workers walked off job days before men killed, CFMEU says
Two workers walked off the job over safety concerns before a fatal accident which saw two men crushed to death by a big concrete slab on a construction site at Brisbane’s Eagle Farm Racecourse, the CFMEU reveals.
Leanne Holland murder: A-G rejects plea for inquest by man jailed for 1991 death of 12yo Ipswich girl
Queensland’s Attorney General rejects a plea for an inquest by the man who was jailed for nearly 15 years for the 1991 murder of Ipswich schoolgirl Leanne Holland.