LAW – AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY – CASES

Kivalu avoids jail over blackmail

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Original article by Ewin Hannan
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 2 : 17-Jun-16

Union organiser Halafihi Kimonu Kivalu has changed his plea from not guilty to guilty to two charges of blackmail. A covert recording of a telephone conversation provided evidence that he received $A70,000 from a building contractor. In the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory on 16 June 2016, Kivalu received a suspended jail sentence of two years and nine months.

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Mighty slip-up as former speaker guilty of dishonesty

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Original article by Megan Gorrey
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 1 & 5 : 29-Jul-14

The Australian Capital Territory Magistrates’ Court will sentence Peter Slipper on 22 September 2014. The former speaker of the federal lower house has been convicted of dishonestly using government taxi vouchers on three separate occasions in 2010. His lawyer had argued that the prosecution had failed to prove that Slipper had not been on parliamentary business at the time. Slipper had pleaded not guilty

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