AN article in The Courier-Mail of September 19, 2009, reported on a failed appeal to the Court of Appeal by the Queensland Nursing Council to reinstate the suspension of the registration of nurse, Juanita Graham. Ms Graham’s registration was suspended by the Queensland Nursing Tribunal last year, but this was overturned by the District Court [...]
ON February 20, 2009, The Courier-Mail reported details of an assault claim brought against St John Ambulance which concerned first aid allegedly provided at a surf carnival at Lorne, Victoria, in February 2006. The article may have been interpreted as suggesting as fact that it was St John Ambulance officers who had performed the first [...]
THE Courier-Mail in December last year ran reports on the collapse of two companies, Superior Wealth Creation and Super Equity. Each referred to a Brisbane businessman, Mr John Buckby, pictured. Some readers may have believed the reports suggested Mr Buckby had been knowingly involved in encouraging investors to put their money into flawed investments. Mr [...]
ON PAGE 3 of the May 10, 2008, edition, an article inaccurately stated that a professional tennis player, Paul Hanley, had been charged by London police with date rape. In fact Mr Hanley was never charged. After completing their inquiries into the allegation, about which Mr Hanley maintained there was no truth, the police decided [...]
ON page 11 of the May 10 edition of The Courier-Mail a photograph of Todd Reid, a 23-year-old professional tennis player, was inadvertently and incorrectly referred to as a photograph of another professional tennis player, Paul Hanley. The photograph was mistakenly included in an article about Mr Hanley and a charge that Mr Hanley is [...]
IN THE weekend edition of January 12-13, The Courier-Mail published an article, “Aurukun rape victim in hiding”, which incorrectly said that a 12-year-old child had been raped by her father before she was five. The Courier-Mail regrets the error, retracts the allegation and apologises to the father for any distress and embarrassment caused as a [...]
