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The final report of the Harper Review of competition policy, published in March 2015, made 56 recommendations across the key areas of competition policy, legislation and institutions. The implementation of a number of those recommendations directly affects procurement procedures and policy across Queensland Government agencies.

On 1 April 2016, Crown Law represented Queensland Health in the Beenleigh Magistrates Court in a prosecution under the Food Act 2006 for one of the largest outbreaks of food poisoning in Queensland.

In February, 2014, the High Court ruled in Barbaro & Zirilli v the Queen [2014] HCA 2 that prosecutors were not permitted to make submissions on sentence in relation to the range of penalty properly available to sentencing Courts.

Recently, the Director-General of the Department of Energy and Water Supply (DEWS), Mr Paul Simshauser, presented specialised technical training in computer modelling and forecasting for energy prices as a fundraising event for Windana Support Centre Inc.

More than 54,000 hectares of land north-west of Cooktown was returned to its traditional Aboriginal owners at a ceremony in Hopevale on Wednesday 6 April 2016.