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Covert cameras are presently catching Queensland motorists committing two offences at once, copping $1400 fines and seven demerit points.

Since mid 2022 new speed camera technology has been and continued to be being across Queensland. These cameras will held reduce speeding offences which are one of the leading causes of fatalities and serious injuries on Queensland roads, with 74 deaths and thousands of injuries in 2021 involving speed.

Using mobile phones whilst driving is another major cause of serious road accidents. Covert cameras may raise funds, but they do save lives.

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All vehicles (including trucks, motorbikes and trailers) must have a Safety or Roadworthy Certificate (RWC) if being sold, registered for the first time or being re-registered in Queensland. Registered Vehicles cannot be solid without a RWC.

We are dedicated and passionate about servicing, repairing and maintaining one of your most valuable assets, your Motor Vehicle.

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It was on March 8th, 1973 at about 2a.m. that 15 people died of carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of an act of arson at a third rate, but busy nightclub situated in St Paul’s Terrace, Fortitude Valley in Brisbane. At the time it was Australia's worst mass murder case. The fire occurred after containers of flammable liquid was set on fire in the stairwell of the second story nightclub.

It was a busier night than usual because the headline band that night was the popular band The Delltones. They had just finished their “gig” and had left the venue.

Subsequently, two criminals, James Richard Finch and John Andrew Stuart were arrested and convicted as the offenders in this crime. Stuart was found dead in his cell at Boggo Road Jail in 1979. Finch was released from jail in 1988 and he was then deported back to his birth country, England. No other people have ever been charged with anything relating to this mass murder incident.

This month, being 50 years on the people of Queensland and more so the relatives and family of victims are no closer to finding out the real truth of this crime. At a very early stage as police investigations got going New South Wales detective Roger Rogerson joined the investigation team. At the time this was unusual to happen so early in the investigation. Rogerson would later tell an inquest that he was only there as "an observer”. It begs the question “Who was he an observer for?”

Prior to this fire there had been a number of suspicious criminal incidents around Fortitude Valley attempting to extort protection money from nightclubs and similar type businesses. That included the 23rd February 1973 firebombing of Torino’s Nightclub, also in Fortitude Valley.

It is strongly believed that at no time did Stuart and Finch mean to kill these people -they were just trying to extort money from the nightclubs. It is strongly believe that they were merely ”the soldiers” and others had instigated this dastardly crime.

Following the arrest and charging of Stuart and Finch another tragedy occurred when on the 16t January 1974, Barbara McCulkin (34) and her two daughters, Vicki (13) and Leanne (11) disappeared from their home in Highgate Hill. Mrs McCulkin’s estranged husband, Billy, had connections with O’Dempsey and Dubois, so she may have been able to implicate them through what he may have told her.

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Profits from the sale of this toilet paper is used our donation could go to building toilets, but could also mean it supports larger clean water projects.

Barbara McCulkin told friends that she knew enough about the nightclub bombings. There were a number of criminally active people who wanted to silence her.

On 28 November 2016, Garry Dubois (then aged 69) was found guilty of the murders. Following that on the 26th May 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey (then aged 78) was also found guilty of murder.

In January 2022 a second inquest was opened into the Whiskey Au Go Go. Unfortunately, in 1972 investigation techniques such as CCTV evidence, body worn camera vision, videotaped interviews, DNA exhibits that are taken for granted today were not even thought of in that era.

The former ACT attorney general, Bernard Collaery, who was an investigator at the immigration department in the 1970s, gave evidence at the inquest into the deaths of 15 people in the nightclub attack that Brisbane’s Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub would be burned down before the fatal firebombing happened in 1973. Collaery was also told the now disgraced detective Roger Rogerson and another

New South Wales police officer, believed to be Detective Freddy Krahe were “jealous” of a heroin operation that operated at the Fortitude Valley venue.

Queensland Coroner Mr Terry Ryan compelled Rogerson to give evidence "in the public's interest”. Rogerson didn't give away much, complaining that he had bouts of a bad memory.

For decades this crime has been deemed a “closed case” when perhaps it is actually a “cold case”.

Unfortunately, 50 years since this mass murder almost all witness with any direct information about the cause of this fire have long since died. Those few that do remain have a strong reason not to remember any of those details.

At this time the inquest has been adjourned so that solicitors who wish to make submissions to the inquiry on behalf of their many clients have time to prepare those submissions.

Irrespective of the results of the present Coroners Inquest it is highly unlikely that any real extra information will be elicited such that other possible offenders can be charged in this instance.

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Why you should have an Air Dehumidifier

If you want your home to remain as comfortable as possible during the summer months, you should consider using a dehumidifier to reduce the amount of excessive moisture in the air. With the present indications are that the atmosphere will remain humid throughout the next 4 to 6 months mould and mildew will continue to grow.

Using a dehumidifier during the summer also improves the air quality inside your home and can eliminate potential allergens like mould and mildew. A dehumidifier also reduces the chance of dust mites which thrive in high humidity areas and also eliminates odours.