Jemima Burt
Brisbane, QLD
Jemima is a news reporter based in Brisbane, who previously worked in Cairns. She has also worked for ABC Rural and ABC News in regional South Australia. You can email Jemima at Burt.Jemima@abc.net.au
Latest by Jemima Burt
Homelessness charity narrowly avoids pre-dawn eviction due to being $230,000 behind in rent
By Jemima Burt
A financially embattled Brisbane homelessness charity, locked in a bitter tenancy dispute, has narrowly avoided having its locks changed with more than a dozen homeless adults and children inside.
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Cold case breakthrough as man assists police over disappearance of Queensland woman
By Jemima Burt, Rory Callinan, and Michael Atkin
Police say a 62-year-old man is assisting with their inquiries over the February 2013 disappearance of a Kowanyama woman known as Ms Bernard.
'Violent' home invasion south of Brisbane leaves family of four shaken
By Jemima Burt
Police say three men armed with a shotgun and two knives gained entry to the home at Bryants Road in Loganholme at about 9pm.
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'Pushy' tele-fundraisers pressure pensioner into donating $18k as family calls for crackdown
By Jemima Burt
When John Carter was moving into care earlier this year, his family was sorting through his belongings and made an alarming discovery.
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QFES says former contractor allegedly stole Rural Fire Service information
By Sarah Richards and Jemima Burt
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services says the former contractor allegedly removed personal details of Rural Fire Service volunteers, but there is "no evidence to indicate an ongoing concern".
'My husband even needs to assist me with showering': Brisbane mum sues Queensland Health and gastric surgeon for alleged negligence
Exclusive by Jemima Burt and Rory Callinan
Jade Elizabeth Harrington has launched legal action against Queensland Health for allegedly unnecessarily removing her gall bladder and misdiagnosing a life-threatening complication of bariatric surgery on five occasions.
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Linda remembers when her commute took 20 minutes. Now it's closer to an hour
By Jemima Burt
Moreton Bay has 94 suburbs, takes nearly an hour to traverse, and is expecting 240 new residents a week for the next 25 years. But those who live there fear they're not prepared for the population explosion.
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Telemarketer at centre of charity cyber hack collapses, putting more than 100 out of work
By Jemima Burt
Pareto Phone folds less than two months after the ABC revealed the company had potentially breached Australian privacy laws by keeping donor details for more than a decade.
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Queensland's fire chief mistakenly provided incorrect hazard reduction figure ahead of bushfire season, announces resignation
Exclusive by Rory Callinan and Jemima Burt
Human error has been blamed for an incorrect tally of the number of hazard reduction burns carried out in Queensland.
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Australia's new $11m fire warning system is exaggerating the risks, ABC investigation reveals
Exclusive by Rory Callinan and Jemima Burt
Under the new system, parts of Australia have already faced catastrophic warnings this fire season. But some of those alerts were wrong.
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Robyn's son left hospital with three unexplained spinal fractures. Police gave up investigating when he died months later
Exclusive by Jemima Burt
Robert Tremble endured six months of suffering after being released from Caboolture Hospital with injuries that would result in his deterioration and eventual death.
'It's an absolute joke': Queensland police officers in secret racist recordings to keep their jobs
By Jemima Burt
Queensland Police Service has confirmed three members will have to undergo "remedial strategies".
Pareto Phone workers not told criminal checks among 320,000 files published in hack
By Jemima Burt and Kevin Nguyen
The ABC can reveal former staff of hacked tele-fundraiser Pareto Phone were not told for weeks that their highly sensitive employment information was published on the dark web.
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More than 50,000 Australians affected in charity data breach, credit card data stolen
By Jemima Burt and Sarah Richards
The number of charities revealing their donors have had personal information leaked to the dark web is growing, as the tally of Australians implicated exceeds 50,000.
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Cybercriminals publish personal details of thousands of donors to Australian charities on the dark web
By Jemima Burt
The Cancer Council, Canteen and Fred Hollows Foundation have confirmed donor information has been published on the dark web after a telemarketer was hacked.
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Queensland minister was obliged to report reprisal allegations, legal expert says
By Jemima Burt
Legal practitioners say a Palaszczuk government minister was obliged to report reprisal allegations raised in a one-on-one meeting with a whistleblower last year.
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Decorated public servant Trevor Crawford blew the whistle on alleged government corruption. He says it ended his career
By Jemima Burt
For decorated public servant Trevor Crawford, the retribution he says he faced after alleging corruption in the Queensland public service drove him to consider taking his own life.
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Aleisha grieved her lost baby for a week. Then a second ultrasound revealed a healthy pregnancy
By Jemima Burt
Her allegations are one of a litany against the hospital after the ABC revealed staff had turned away a baby with a potentially life-threatening condition.
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Queensland’s second largest school builds $700k playground despite nearly all 4,300 students learning from home
By Rory Callinan and Jemima Burt
Education Queensland has admitted to destroying trees planted in memory of deceased teachers as part of spending blitz at distance education school.
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'Ghost students' could pass under distance education school's changed grading policy, teacher says
By Rory Callinan and Jemima Burt
Teachers at Queensland's second largest state school have been told to use their "on-balance judgement" and still give a grade to students who don't undertake formal assessment, a leaked email has revealed.
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'Worst-case scenario, we close': The cost of gentrification for West End's small traders
By Jemima Burt
West End used to be populated by thespians and proletariats, but locals say gentrification has priced them out.
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Queensland teachers have been gifted robot vacuums, Air Jordans and concert tickets. Some are asking if it's too much
By Rory Callinan and Jemima Burt
An ABC examination of the gifts handed to teachers in the past 18 months has found their receipt apparently breaches the enforceable regulation under the Queensland Public Sector Act.
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Barrier Reef island resort fined for serving dessert containing nuts to allergic teenager
By Jemima Burt
The Brisbane Magistrates Court has been told the Heron Island Resort chef offered to make a nut-free dessert, then used a pre-packaged cake that contained almonds and possibly other nuts.
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Ex-prison guard who was caught with illegal drugs pleads guilty to intimate relationship with prisoner
By Jemima Burt
A woman who was employed by Queensland Correction Services was found to have been in a relationship with an inmate and in possession of 195 strips of an illegal drug.