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Huge rise in local DV calls By Sonia Isaacs BEERWAH police are receiving over 100 domestic violence-related phone calls a month, in what the station’s Domestic and nce Liaison Family Violence O) describes Officer (DVLO) ential as an “exponential er the past increase” over two years. d Police Queensland ecently Service has recently a released data revealing in 2023 ed police received a staggering FV number of DFV reports and occurrences, with over
171,000 incidents reported statewide. Speaking with GC&M News, Beerwah Police DVLO, Senior Constable Kristy Welsh (pictured), confirmed there had been “an exponential increase” in relat calls for service DV related over th the past couple of years. She said one troubl trend had troubling b also been the increase in DV breaches in relation to Protection Order conditions, such as when perpetrators are not to contact or approach victims.
OVER 90 per cent of the 400+ public submissions responding to Hanson Quarry’s application to double rock extraction in the Glasshouse Mountains are opposed to the plan. GC&M News analysed
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each of the 403 submissions lodged (as of 12pm Friday May 3 ) and found that 361 opposed the proposal, 26 were in support and the remainder were invalid. Environmental, cultural and tourism impacts topped the list of concerns by opponents.
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