The man accused of shooting three people dead on remote farmland in North Queensland had his gun license revoked by police more than a decade ago, court documents reveal.
But Bogie resident Darryl Young, who is charged with murdering Maree and Mervyn Schwarz and Graham Tighe, successfully appealed the police decision the same year his license was cancelled, claiming he needed it for his “business”.
Documents from the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) reveal Mr Young was first granted a gun license in 1992.
Documents from the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal reveal accused triple-murderer Darryl Young had his gun license revoked by police in 2010, but he successfully appealed the decision. Credit: Supplied
It allowed him to hold four rifles and two shotguns.
In 2010 Queensland Police refused his bid to renew the licence. They argued it was “not in the public interest” for him to hold a license.
In Mr Young’s appeal, he claimed he needed the guns to control feral animals on a property in Gladstone.
“There is no were (sic) in the laws of the gun laws that I have broken to stop me having a gun license,” Young says in his application.
“I need my gun license for my business. I hope the Tribunal over turns (sic) the decision so I can have my license.”
Mr Young is alleged to have murdered Maree and Mervyn Schwarz (pictured) at farmland in Bogie last week. Credit: SuppliedGraham Tighe was also allegedly shot dead by Mr Young. Credit: Supplied
The court ruled in favor of Mr Young, rejecting police arguments to refuse the renewal.
Last week, in an unrelated matter, Mr Young was charged with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
Police allege the 59-year-old killed the Schwarzes and Mr Tighe at a property in Bogie, near Bowen, during an arranged meeting at the boundary line.
Ross Tighe survived the incident and drove injured to alert police. Credit: Supplied
Graham’s brother Ross Tighe was also shot in the stomach but survived, alerting police to what had occurred.
Mr Young, who has been remanded in custody, briefly appeared before Proserpine Magistrates Court on Monday.
For those who love the cold and have never seen snow before, Tuesday might just be your chance.
A cold front that will move across Perth and South West on Monday and Tuesday will create almost the perfect conditions for a light amount of snow to fall in the Stirling Ranges and on the top of Bluff Knoll on Tuesday morning.
Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Jessica Lingard said a “light dusting” of snowfall was expected in the region.
“We’ve got this cold front moving through today (Monday) and basically the cold front is aligned between two different air masses where you get warmer air in front of it and cold air behind it,” Ms Lingard said.
“The cold air behind today’s cold front is particularly cold and that means the upper-level air temperatures are very low.
“We need that level to be low enough so that when the snow falls out of the cloud it is not melting before it reaches the ground.
“Tomorrow morning, that situation comes about and conditions are looking good for a little bit of snow.
“I don’t think anybody is going to be building snowmen or skiing, but it will be a very light dusting.”
Snow was recorded at least five times last year in the Stirling Ranges, equaling a record set 53 years ago.
Snow at Bluff Knoll in 2019. David Readhead @davis_redman8 Credit: David Readhead
As for Perth, the city can expect to cop further heavy rainfall over the coming days.
Up to 15mm of rain is expected across the metropolitan area on Monday with a further 20mm tipped to fall on Tuesday.
The average amount of rainfall for Perth in August is 122mm. The city has already recorded 84mm.
“Considering we are only eight days in it wouldn’t surprise me if we got close or exceeded that average (over the next few days),” Ms Lingard said.
Eleven suburbs have joined the $1m median house price club as values continue to climb in Perth.
While other states are seeing house prices fall, Perth has lagged behind most of the other capitals.
It means despite rising interest rates and cost of living pressures, the housing market in WA has soared in the past year.
Six of the 11 suburbs recorded more than 20 per cent price growth during the 2021-22 financial year, according to the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.
Marmion, Mount Hawthorn, North Perth, Fremantle and Kensington had their median house prices tip above $1.1m at the end of June.
Gwelup, Booragoon, Karrinyup, Leederville, Iluka and Como reached $1m or more.
The top suburb is Marmion, which now has a median price of $1.27m — an increase of 32 per cent in the past year.
Eleven suburbs have joined the $1m median house price club in Perth. Daily Telegraph/Gaye Gerard Credit: News Corp Australia
REIWA president Damian Collins said people had started to gain confidence in WA’s strong economy and property market, which had translated into more sales at the top end.
“All of these suburbs have had medians hovering below $1m for quite some time,” he said.
“It is impressive to see the demand for houses in these suburbs hold strong throughout the 2021-22 financial year, now placing them in Perth’s luxury market.”
Mr Collins said Perth’s premium market was attracting a lot of interest from buyers leading to strong price growth.
“If you are considering selling in one of these suburbs, now would be an opportunistic time to capitalize on this demand,” he said.
REIWA predicts house prices will continue to rise in Perth for some time.
“Given Perth has a housing shortage, the cheapest median house price of any capital city in the country, a growing population and strong economy, we anticipate house prices to continue to rise as we enter the back end of 2022,” Mr Collins said.
“As more suburbs reap the benefits of our strong market conditions, Perth’s million-dollar club is likely to continue to grow over the next 12 months.”
Three more people have come forward to lodge complaints against a massage therapist and personal trainer accused of raping and sexually assaulting two of his clients in regional Victoria.
Police allege Michael Allwood, 62, raped and sexually assaulted two women during a massage at his business in Maryborough, about 170 kilometers northwest of Melbourne in the Central Goldfields, on January 15 and June 29 this year.
Maryborough massage therapist and personal trainer Michael Allwood.Credit:Facebook
Allwood was arrested and charged last Wednesday following a raid of his business, Massage by Michael of Maryborough Victoria and Personal Training 1 to 1, but was later released on bail.
He appeared in Bendigo Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning charged with two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.
The court heard that at least three other complainants had come forward to provide statements to police since the 62-year-old’s arrest but no information on the nature of the allegations was provided.
Images shared on Facebook suggest Allwood ran his personal training and massage business out of a converted garage at a home on Majorca Road and advertised massages from $10.
Images of Allwood’s business in Maryborough. A massage table can be seen in the corner, separated from the gym by a curtain.Credit:Facebook
Photographs of the cluttered space show exercise machines and equipment on stained foam gym tiles and a massage table in a corner, separated from the exercise area by a curtain.
On his business’s Facebook page, Allwood, who claims to be certified in several massage techniques, offered strength training, pilates classes, surgery recovery exercises, and neck and full-body massages.
“If we want to have diversity of food supplies, then I think we do have to have a capacity to produce it here,” he said.
Even the future of Australia’s mighty $49 billion agricultural sector is looking shaky. Thanks to climate change, production of major export commodities such as wheat, beef, dairy and sugar will fall as much as 19 per cent by 2050, the Climate Group’s report found.
To address food insecurity, La Trobe University and CSIRO have joined forces to propose the Australian Food Innovation Center (AFIC), which would function as a research, development and innovation lab to help industry devise improved agricultural crops that are high-yield, disease- resistant and more water-efficient.
As an example of the kind of work AFIC would do, La Trobe Institute for Agriculture and Food has worked with global beverage giant PepsiCo to create a new oat “genome blueprint” that contains 2000 newly discovered genes made free to oat breeders and biotechnologists that will assist in breeding drought- and heat-resistant oat crops to reduce supply instability.
So far, the Victorian government has committed $1.5 million to AFIC, but this is a fraction of the $300 million to $400 million Bacic says is needed from state and federal governments to set it up. He estimates the center would add $100 million a year to Australia’s food exports and create up to 30 new food manufacturing facilities in its first decade.
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“It’s such a critically important thing for Australia because without food, we’re in trouble,” Bacic said.
Bacic is the latest voice to join a growing chorus of business leaders and industry heavyweights calling for more investment in local food production. Agribusiness Elders chief Mark Allison says it could be a $300 billion opportunity.
A commitment to “make more things here in Australia” has been a key pledge in Anthony Albanese’s pitch to win government.
Manufacturing jobs in the 1960s made up 25 per cent of the workforce; now that’s about 6 per cent. A 2020 report by think tank Australia Institute pointed out that the COVID crisis made the “strategic importance” of local manufacturing “more obvious”.
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An Adelaide massage therapist charged with sexually assaulting two female clients indecently recorded up to 200 other women at a beachside clinic, a court has heard.
Key points:
The 35-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting two clients at his massage clinic
Police say they have taken statements from a further 13 women and found more than 700 images on his phone
He has been refused home detention bail
The 35-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with seven sexual offenses against two alleged victims at the clinic in Adelaide’s western suburbs.
He today applied for home detention bail on the grounds he was not a risk to the community and would not flee the country.
But prosecutors opposed bail, saying the “sheer number” of potential victims was substantial and police had taken statements from a further 13 women.
Magistrate Paul Foley heard that 10 of those victims had made a complaint of indecent assault and three of those would be coupled with an indecent filming charge.
The court heard there were a further three victims of indecent filming.
Prosecutors told the court police had identified 721 indecent images on the man’s phone that related to between 150 and 200 women — many of whom were face-down on the massage table in various stages of undress.
“The offending appears to be extremely widespread and obviously serious,” prosecutor Brevet Sergeant Nicholas Fatchen said.
Marie Shaw QC, appearing for the man, submitted most of the allegations against her client were for indecent filming – a charge considered a less serious criminal offence.
She said he had the presumption in favor of bail, could be tracked electronically, could work from home selling solar parts and was not a flight risk.
Home detention bail denied
“He’s a 35-year-old man with no previous convictions … he’s never been in prison before,” Ms Shaw said.
“There’s no basis to suggest he would reoffend and there’s no basis to suggest he’s a flight risk.”
Ms Shaw added it would take three years before the case could be finalized at trial.
But the prosecutor said the charges were serious, as the man faced three rape charges, which would attract a prison sentence if guilty.
He said the prosecution had a strong case against the man and feared he would flee back to his home country as he was not an Australian citizen.
“He has a very strong incentive to flee,” he submitted to the court.
He also said if the man was given a “pass out” from home detention bail, he could run into potential victims, given the sheer number of them.
“There’s a significant risk he would run into various victims. I’m not suggesting he would seek them out, but the safety and protection of the victims is paramount,” he said.
Magistrate Foley denied the man’s home detention bail, saying the charges were too serious.
Queensland police have been kept busy over the weekend dealing with juvenile crime across the Gold Coast and Brisbane.
Key points:
Seven teenagers have been arrested after two separate vehicle thefts on the Gold Coast at the weekend
Chief Superintendent Craig Hanlon said the offending was “unsophisticatedly coordinated”
A police officer suffered a suspected broken nose after he was allegedly punched by a 13-year-old girl
One of the incidents involved six teenagers who allegedly stole a Land Rover and a BMW from a home at Carrara and a Range Rover from Southport.
Gold Coast Chief Superintendent Craig Hanlon said the BMW was tracked to Pimpama where the tires were deflated by road spikes.
“The offenders then jumped into the other stolen vehicle and Polair [police helicopter] tracked it to Mount Gravatt and Carindale in Brisbane,” he said.
“We deployed tire deflation devices again; the vehicle was disabled.”
A dog squad officer tracked the teenagers who were found hiding in nearby residences.
“What they do is drive one [vehicle] and when it gets disabled they jump into another one.”
Two 15-year-old Pimpama boys, a 15-year-old Runaway Bay boy, a 17-year-old Marsden boy, a 15-year-old Peranga boy, and a 14-year-old Oxenford boy have been charged with one count each of burglary and two counts each of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
Five of the juveniles will appear at Brisbane Children’s Court today while the sixth teenager will appear at the Brisbane Children’s Court on August 12.
Teenage girl arrested
In a separate incident on Saturday, Gold Coast police said a Lexus was stolen in Surfers Paradise and was tracked to a home in Miami where a 15-year-old girl was arrested while a 14-year-old girl remains outstanding.
Chief Superintendent Hanlon said the number of juveniles committing repeat offenses was increasing.
“What we are seeing is the number of juvenile offenders is decreasing, but we talk about that 10 per cent. They’re the 10 per cent that commits almost 50 per cent of the crime,” he said.
“We focus on that 10 per cent and they target vulnerable kids, who are disengaged with family, and bring them into their web and they will then commit offenses with them.
“We’ve got to make sure that the main offenders may need to be treated differently to those people who are fringe dwellers that are not doing the main offending.”
Officer punched
Chief Superintendent Hanlon said one of his officers was recovering in hospital with a suspected broken nose after he was allegedly punched by a 13-year-old girl in Surfers Paradise overnight.
“They weren’t committing offenses. We were just concerned about their wellbeing,” he said.
“For some unknown reason, one of the 13-year-olds has punched the officer.
“He’s been transported to Pindara Hospital and she’s been charged with serious assault of a police officer.”
Ray Hadley blows up and storms off the air just ONE HOUR into a week-long live broadcast from Brisbane as technical problems hit his broadcast: ‘A complete and utter fiasco!’
Ray Hadley was broadcasting from the Royal Queensland Show on Monday
The program from ‘The Ekka’ was set by technical problems from the start
Hadley quit the show after an hour and said he was heading back to Sydney
Stand-in announcer Mark Levy took over for the duration of the 2GB program
By Stephen Gibbs for Daily Mail Australia
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An irate Ray Hadley has walked off a live broadcast from the Royal Queensland Show after technical difficulties turned his morning radio program into a ‘fiasco’.
Hadley told listeners on Monday his broadcast from the show, known as the Ekka, had been a disaster from when he went on air shortly after 9am and he would not continue.
The 2GB announcer had been heavily promoting the Brisbane visit on his program and had been supposed to be at the Ekka all week.
Hadley ran the usual introduction to his show, which is also played on Brisbane’s 4BC and dozens of network stations around Australia, but it quickly descended into chaos.
‘Just a couple of little technical problems as we’re at the Ekka and things will be rectified by the time I get here tomorrow, I can assure you,’ Hadley said.
An irate Ray Hadley has walked off a live broadcast from the Royal Queensland Show after technical difficulties disrupted his morning radio program
‘Now I’m going to take a little break and come back and look at the weather very shortly. The time is coming up now to 25 past nine.’
After playing commercials and enduring continual glitches including periods of silence Hadley came back on and said, ‘Look, we’re gonna take another break’.
More advertisements followed before Hadley said the problems were ongoing and he would be ‘having discussions’ when the program finished at midday.
‘All I can do is apologize most sincerely for the first 30 minutes of the program which has been a complete and utter fiasco,’ he said.
‘But I do apologize. I’m broadcasting from the Ekka, which I didn’t get a chance to tell you because nothing seemed to work.
Hadley told listeners his broadcast from the show, known as the Ekka, had been a fiasco from when he went on air shortly after 9am and he would not continue
Hadley repeatedly apologized to his listeners for the technical disruptions. A ride at The Ekka is pictured
‘I hope it is currently working and we’ll see what happens from here on in but I do apologize most sincerely to network stations and the listeners on 2GB and 4BC for what’s basically been a fiasco for 30 minutes.
‘And obviously we’ll be having some discussions at midday about the fiasco I’ve presided over. ‘
After another break the difficulties had still not been resolved and Hadley said his regular stand-in, Mark Levy, would be taking over the show.
‘Look, we are having some rather severe technical problems here at the Ekka to the extent that Mark Levy will be looking after the program after ten o’clock this morning, for which I do apologize to Mark and everyone else.’
After another break the problems had still not been resolved and Hadley said his regular stand-in, Mark Levy, would be taking over the show. Levy is pictured
‘… While I’m on air there are people here trying to fix things – unsuccessfully I might mention – at the moment.
‘There’s no point trying to, as we do from time to time, get through three hours of this without much help because technically we don’t have anything here in front of me that’s actually working at the moment.
‘So we’ll lumber on until ten and then Mark will take control.’
As the clock ticked closer to 10am, Hadley told listeners he was heading for the airport.
‘I’ll make my way back to Sydney and I’ll be broadcasting from the studio in Sydney tomorrow given the problems we’ve encountered this morning.’
Daily Mail Australia understands Hadley has been assured the technical issues would be fixed. He will resume broadcasting from the Ekka on Tuesday.
‘Ray will be remaining in Brisbane and broadcasting from the Ekka this week,’ a spokeswoman for Nine Entertainment, which owns 2GB, said.
WA journalist and radio host Gareth Parker is set to take on the role of news director in the Channel 9 Perth newsroom.
Parker announced the news on his morning breakfast radio show on Monday.
“I’ll be leaving 6PR breakfast … I am incredibly excited and proud to say that I’ve accepted a new job as the director of news for Channel 9 Perth, which is a huge opportunity for me personally,” Parker told listeners .
“I am looking forward to getting up the hill to the top of the Terrace and getting stuck into the newsroom.”
A date for when Parker will start in the new role has not yet been announced.
“I am not going to disappear immediately, there is still a bit to sort out with a move like this,” he said.
6PR has taken a massive hit in some of this year’s radio ratings surveys.
Parker’s 6PR breakfast show was the biggest loser of the survey in May this year, down a whopping 1.5 points to hold just 8.5 per cent of the audience pie — well behind its AM rival ABC Perth.
Last month’s survey showed Parker’s show managed just an 8.6 per cent share, still over two points behind the ABC.
Parker is a previous winner of the WA Journalist of the Year award.
He worked for The West Australian for over a decade, including almost four years as the paper’s State political editor.
Parker also served as the paper’s Melbourne bureau chief and as online deputy editor.
I have joined 6PR, which is owned by Channel Nine, in 2017.
Labor’s state executive will meet this afternoon to discuss returning a controversial $125,000 election donation from the Victorian branch of the construction union, following a request by Premier Peter Malinauskas amid a domestic violence controversy and vandalism claims.
Labor leader Peter Malinauskas. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily
The donation helped bolster Labor’s campaign ahead of the March 2022 state election and has been the subject of scrutiny in recent weeks after the John Setka-led Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) took control of the South Australian branch.
The Opposition and Setka’s estranged wife Emma Walters – whom the polarizing construction union boss was convicted of harassing in 2019 – called on Malinauskas to hand the $125,000 donation to a domestic violence charity.
Malinauskas had previously rejected their appeals, but yesterday afternoon he announced that he had requested that Labor’s state executive pay back or donate the CFMEU’s gift.
The state executive will hold a virtual snap meeting at 1pm today to consider Malinauskas’ request.
The Premier, who is a member of the state executive, is yet to confirm if he will attend today’s meeting, but party rules dictate that he is unable to send a proxy if he is absent.
He said this morning that the backflip was triggered by a conversation he had with Master Builders SA CEO Will Frogley following reports the association’s cars were vandalized and had CFMEU-branded stickers placed on them on Friday.
“Will explained to me the events that had occurred reportedly on Friday afternoon in terms of CFMEU stickers being put on Master Builders cars and also the damage to a car as well,” Malinauskas told ABC Radio Adelaide.
“Over the last couple of weeks, I said if there is any evidence that would suggest that inappropriate behavior on behalf of the CFMEU coming across the border from Victoria – if there are examples of that or evidence of that occurring here in South Australia – then I’ll act.
“That’s exactly what I did yesterday afternoon upon hearing that news.”
A CFMEU sticker was placed on a Master Builders SA car on Friday. Photo: Master Builders SA
Damage to a Master Builders SA car. Photo: Master Builders SA
Malinauskas said the party would not “jump the gun unfairly”, but he was convinced that the alleged car vandalism was sufficient grounds on which Labor’s state executive would agree to hand back the CFMEU’s donation.
“I’ve certainly made my expectations clear and I want to send a very clear message about what will and won’t be tolerated in the context of industrial action in South Australia under my leadership,” he said.
Opposition spokesperson Michelle Lensink described Malinauskas’ decision as a “huge win for domestic violence survivors and victims”, given Setka’s criminal history.
But she urged Malinauskas to apologize for describing her call to donate the $125,000 to a domestic violence charity as “cute”.
“I raised legitimate concerns about Labor’s links to the CFMEU and the $125,000 donation and was totally dismissed because Peter Malinauskas thought it was all a ‘little cute’,” she said.
“Peter Malinauskas had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this point and it is seriously alarming that it has taken weeks for him to realize the error of his ways.”
Malinauskas said the $125,000 donation “didn’t come from John Setka, it came from the union itself”.
He said his comment referred to Lensink’s “political point scoring” – noting the former Marshall Government redirected funding away from Catherine House, a charity which supports women who experience domestic violence.
“Michelle Lensink was seeming to draw a connection between a donation from a construction union and somehow it being a reflection on a lack of conviction on my part in respect to standing up against domestic violence,” he said.
Members of the South Australian branch of the CFMEU voted unanimously last Wednesday night to enter into a co-operative administration arrangement with the Victorian division.
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Ahead of the vote, Malinauskas said he was concerned that the culture of the South Australian division would change under a Victorian take-over.
“In South Australia in the industrial landscape, including within construction, we’ve had civil and professional negotiations in the past and I don’t want to see that change,” he said last week.
But SA secretary Andrew Sutherland said the decision was a “significant step towards building a stronger and sustainable South Australian branch”.
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