MP’s son refuses to pay crash compensation

Rhianna King
April 25, 2012
Boat crash victim, Kate Campbell.
The son of a state MP who was ordered to pay $230,000 to a woman who suffered life threatening injuries in a boat crash four years ago says he cannot afford to pay any of the compensation.
Last month a judge ordered Luke Woollard to pay compensation to Kate Campbell, [...]

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Litany of failure: horror hospital stories emerge

Amy Corderoy
May 3, 2012 – 1:54PM
Brain tumor patient found on highway.
A doctor’s horrific story of how the Royal North Shore Hospital lost he husband, who was later found on the pacific Highway.
Family forced to clean son’s ‘putrid’ room
Hospital lost brain tumour patient
Transferred heart attack victim locked out
Infectious patients abandoned in corridors
Patients at Royal North Shore [...]

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Drunken man hit by car awarded compensation

AAP
May 03, 2012 3:39PM
QUEENSLAND taxpayers will have to pay the $125,000 compensation bill for a drunken man whose feet were fractured when he was hit by a car while trying to cross a road.
The District Court in Brisbane today ordered the Queensland government-funded Nominal Defendant body pay compensation to Gary John McLean for injuries he suffered [...]

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Sam Rowan Knoble ordered to pay Benjamin Nicholas Houghton $52,500 in compensation for attack triggered by accusations of rumours about Knoble’s sister

by:Tony Keim
From:The Courier-Mail
November 22, 2011 1:26PM
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy’s brutal attack on a childhood mate – triggered by accusations of rumours being spread about his sister almost a decade ago – has resulted in him receiving a compensation bill in excess of $50,000.
A Brisbane District Court criminal compensation hearing was this month told Sam Rowan Knoble, then [...]

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Linda Weier was sacked from Spotless after cancer operation

By Nicole Cox
The Sunday Times
June 25, 2011 8:00PM
A BREAST cancer survivor has been sacked from her cleaning job after asking to go on light duties while she recovers from surgery.
Linda Weier said she had been left on the scrapheap after being fired by Spotless from her cleaning supervisor job at David Jones’ Claremont and Perth city [...]

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