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Rex Martinich

@RexMartinich

Court reporter for @AAPNewswire in Brisbane. Views my own.

 Brisbane, Queensland
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Joined February 2010
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#GTA6 has likely sold 160,000 pre-orders in Australia so far (based on 2% of global games market) Probably be 200,000 Aussies trying to download the game's 212 gigabytes from 12am on Nov 10. That's 42 petabytes or equal to watching 500 years of Netflix. Biggest test for NBN ever?
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An investigation into a light plane crash and fire that killed a father and daughter has found the aircraft's engine had trouble starting just before the tragedy. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/odWnpCX…
Probe finds plane had engine trouble before fatal crash

Probe finds plane had engine trouble before fatal crash

Airport CCTV has revealed a light plane had difficulty with its engine before a fiery crash that killed a prominent agriculture figure and his daughter.

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A judge has warned political staffer Bruce Lehrmann's lawyer and a prosecutor against further delays as his rape trial was pencilled in for next year. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/rEkqbHb…
Lehrmann could face trial after judge calls out delays

Lehrmann could face trial after judge calls out delays

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has received a tentative date for his criminal trial after telling a court he could not find a barrister to represent him.

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Corporations Act breach charge against Clive Palmer dropped by Brisbane Magistrates Court after years-long legal saga over Coolum resort takeover. Via @AAPNewswire aapnews.aap.com.au/a/ppzxvsA…
Aiding and abetting charge against Clive Palmer dropped

Aiding and abetting charge against Clive Palmer dropped

A personal charge of aiding and abetting has been dropped in a case against mining magnate Clive Palmer.

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QLD land court rejects challenge to $1 billion Whitehaven Winchester South coal mine brought by the Australian Conservation Foundation and Mackay Conservation Group. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/ZAbVYuL…
Court approves coalmine despite environmental concerns

Court approves coalmine despite environmental concerns

A court has given a mining company the go-ahead to develop a new mine despite activists' concerns about its impact on the environment.

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Former Bachelor star and fitness guru Sam Wood will remain behind bars after having his second application for bail refused in the Queensland Supreme Court. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/qzRyWsL…
Bachelor star Sam Wood refused bail as 'risk' accepted

Bachelor star Sam Wood refused bail as 'risk' accepted

Bachelor star Sam Wood has been denied bail for a second time as he fights allegations of domestic violence against his wife Snezana.

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A man accused of murdering his wife could he heard crying and apparently performing chest compressions during a 3am triple-zero call played to a jury. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/jlbmltW…
Murder accused 'kissed, held, spoke to' wife's body

Murder accused 'kissed, held, spoke to' wife's body

A jury has heard what an adulterer accused of killing his wife said after her body was found next to a ride-on lawnmower.

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One of Australia's most notorious pedophiles has been pictured publicly for the first time in more than four years as part of his extradition over hundreds of additional child abuse charges. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/wxyrNcZ…
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One of Australia's most notorious pedophiles has been extradited across state lines to face hundreds of additional child abuse charges. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/wxyrNcZ…
Childcare rapist pictured in extradition on new charges

Childcare rapist pictured in extradition on new charges

A man described as "Australia's worst pedophile" has been seen for the first time in years while being transported interstate to face more charges.

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A widower accused of trying to bribe officials investigating his wife's death overseas would not flee Australia on bail due to potential execution in Bangladesh, a magistrate has heard. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/vMVnWhx…
Death penalty threat floated by widower seeking bail

Death penalty threat floated by widower seeking bail

A welder arrested for bribing foreign officials after his wife's death would be discouraged from fleeing overseas if granted bail, a magistrate has heard.

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Doctors warning a young girl was at extreme risk from her mother's anti-medicine cult were excluded from safety meetings before the child was killed, a coroner has heard. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/aodALfx…
Plan to send girl to cult triggered 'extreme' warning

Plan to send girl to cult triggered 'extreme' warning

Child safety officers were warned a young diabetic girl's mother would refuse her insulin two years before the child was found dead, a coroner has heard.

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A child safety officer who returned a girl to a cult that later killed her has admitted being “out of their depth” on the family’s extreme beliefs, a coroner has heard. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/RaJAjIb…
Child safety 'misunderstood' cult before girl's death

Child safety 'misunderstood' cult before girl's death

A child safety officer did not fully understand diabetes or the anti-medical beliefs held by the mother of an insulin-dependent girl, a coroner has heard.

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An overworked child safety system willing to take risks sent a girl back to her science-denying mother before her preventable death, a coroner has heard. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/RaJAjIb…
Child safety 'misunderstood' cult before girl's death

Child safety 'misunderstood' cult before girl's death

A child safety officer did not fully understand diabetes or the anti-medical beliefs held by the mother of an insulin-dependent girl, a coroner has heard.

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Queensland woman Rachel Smith has won an appeal in Australia's highest court about her right to freeze her eggs while serving a 10-year prison term for drug trafficking. Via @AAPNewswire aapnews.aap.com.au/a/bMpBPhN…
Prisoner's landmark egg freezing win in High Court

Prisoner's landmark egg freezing win in High Court

The High Court has opened the door to more women freezing their eggs behind bars after it overturned a state's decision banning a prisoner from the procedure.

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The mother of a young woman brutally murdered on a beach has sobbed in court as the details of the crime were debated for the killer's appeal. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/korZAiB…
Mum's tears as daughter's brutal murder faces appeal

Mum's tears as daughter's brutal murder faces appeal

A man jailed for at least 25 years for slashing the throat of a young woman walking her dog has claimed the crime was no more serious than other murders.

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One of Australia's most notorious pedophiles has had abuse hurled at him in court after a move interstate to face almost 200 more charges was approved. Via @AAPNewswire aapnews.aap.com.au/a/ppbgrsA…
'Feral flesh': pedophile screamed at before extradition

'Feral flesh': pedophile screamed at before extradition

One of Australia's most notorious former childcare abusers has had vitriol hurled at him before the pedophile was extradited interstate to answer more charges.

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Child safety officials were warned a diabetic girl faced an extreme risk of death if returned to her science-denying, religious extremist mother, two years before the girl's preventable death, a coroner has heard. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/ygkRotJ…
Effort to keep young girl from mum's cult 'stonewalled'

Effort to keep young girl from mum's cult 'stonewalled'

Before a young girl died, medical experts warned she faced "extreme risk" if returned to a mother whose religious beliefs forbade insulin, a coroner has heard.

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An "extreme" religious group was reported as a potential danger almost a decade before they killed a young girl by withholding her diabetes medication, a coroner has heard. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/ygkRotJ…
Effort to keep young girl from mum's cult 'stonewalled'

Effort to keep young girl from mum's cult 'stonewalled'

Before a young girl died, medical experts warned she faced "extreme risk" if returned to a mother whose religious beliefs forbade insulin, a coroner has heard.

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Former Bachelor reality TV star Sam Wood is set to again apply for bail, this time in Qld Supreme Court, after he was refused bail on domestic violence charges on the Sunshine Coast. Via @AAPNewswire aapnews.aap.com.au/a/JaYjWuR…
Reality TV star set for Supreme Court bail application

Reality TV star set for Supreme Court bail application

A former reality TV star facing domestic violence charges will again apply for bail and take his fight to the Supreme Court.

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Clive Palmer's former solicitor has allegedly fled Australia after being accused of stealing $34 million from the billionaire mining magnate. aapnews.aap.com.au/a/lMjPpUn…
Palmer's lawyer 'flees' after $34 million fraud claim

Palmer's lawyer 'flees' after $34 million fraud claim

Mining magnate Clive Palmer's former solicitor faces an arrest warrant after being accused of defrauding his billionaire client to buy real estate and gold.

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