Five key questions that went unanswered in the first week of Qld’s scrutiny show
This never came.What are the costs to suppress the identity of the ‘high-profile man’?The police session ended abruptly after Scanlon sought to shift into a private meeting to discuss matters around the court suppression of a high-profile man’s identity. This could have partly accounted for the lack of details here.The married man, known only as “MM” and who is not facing any charges himself, has been named as part of an extortion case in Cairns Magistrates Court. He has previously worked for newspapers in Tasmania and Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ.
- ▪This never came.What are the costs to suppress the identity of the ‘high-profile man’?The police session ended abruptly after Scanlon sought to shift into a private meeting to discuss matters around the court suppression of a high-profile m
- ▪This could have partly accounted for the lack of details here.The married man, known only as “MM” and who is not facing any charges himself, has been named as part of an extortion case in Cairns Magistrates Court.
- ▪He has previously worked for newspapers in Tasmania and Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ.
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