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20y · Female·Drowning during the course of a crocodile attack
Isobel Von Jordan, a 20-year-old German university student, drowned during a saltwater crocodile attack at Sandy Billabong in Kakadu National Park on 22 October 2002. Tour guide Glenn Robless led the swimming group to an…
36y · Female·drowning caused by self-inhalation of vomit
Valerie Wurramurra, a 36-year-old Aboriginal woman, drowned after inhaling vomit following head injuries sustained in a boat accident on 13 April 2002 between Groote Eylandt and Bickerton Island. The coroner made an open…
Male·Burns received in a gas explosion on a drilling rig
This was an industrial fatality on a gas drilling rig in the Surat Basin on 7 April 2003. Rodney Fiechtner, the rig manager, died from thermal burns covering 95% of his body after an uncontrolled natural gas release and …
31y · Female·mixed drug toxicity (propoxyphene, fluvoxamine, and alprazolam)
A 31-year-old woman with extensive history of deliberate self-harm and prescription drug abuse died from mixed drug toxicity (propoxyphene, fluvoxamine, and alprazolam). She presented to the emergency department with a r…
0y · Female·bronchopneumonia caused by hypoxic brain damage caused or contributed to by meni…
A 9-month-old Aboriginal girl died from bronchopneumonia caused by hypoxic brain damage following cardiorespiratory arrest due to meningitis and seizures. During resuscitation at a rural GP clinic, a CO₂ cylinder was ina…
18y · Male·Ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Damien George Garlett, an 18-year-old Aboriginal remand prisoner at Hakea Prison, died by ligature compression of the neck (hanging) on 4 April 2003. He had a history of self-harm, drug-induced psychosis, violent offence…
16y · Female·lacerations of the liver
A 16-year-old Aboriginal female died from liver lacerations sustained in what the coroner determined was an unlawful killing rather than an accident. The deceased was last seen alive entering a taxi after an evening at t…
Male·Unknown
David Eason, a middle-aged English businessman, went missing on 29 March 2001 while bushwalking on Fraser Island, Queensland. His remains were discovered on 14 April 2003 in dense bushland near Lake Wabby. The cause of d…
26y · Female·morphine toxicity complicated terminally by bronchopneumonia
A 26-year-old woman with chronic migraines and depression died from morphine toxicity complicated by aspiration pneumonia. She had a documented history of drug-seeking behaviour, forged prescriptions, and doctor-shopping…
63y · Male·pneumonia complicating anoxic brain injury, due to post-operative haemorrhage as…
A 63-year-old man died from pneumonia complicating anoxic brain injury following a post-operative haemorrhage from the inferior epigastric artery during ileostomy closure surgery. The critical failure was a 2.5-hour dela…
56y · Male·Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Christian Armand, a self-employed carpenter and builder, contracted malignant pleural mesothelioma from occupational exposure to asbestos cement products during home renovation work in Victoria in the 1970s–1980s. An occ…
60y · Female·Aspiration of food in a woman with cerebral atrophy
Jytte Mortensen, a 60-year-old woman with multi-infarct dementia and schizoaffective disorder, died at Graylands Hospital from aspiration of food. She had documented dysphagia requiring a pureed diet and one-to-one super…
56y · Female·Cardiac Failure Secondary to Atherosclerotic Heart Disease, Systemic Hypertensio…
Marlene Faye Ware, a 56-year-old Aboriginal woman serving home detention for traffic offences, collapsed suddenly at home on 24 November 2002 and died in the Emergency Department of Royal Perth Hospital. She had Type II …
Bushfire (multiple fire incidents in December 2001)
In December 2001, multiple bushfires affected the Australian Capital Territory, including the significant Stromlo plantation fire. The Chief Coroner inquired into cause and origin, finding many fires were deliberately li…
Immersion (Drowning)
Two children, Jack Craig Anstey (7) and Ashleigh Fiona Mungur (8), drowned on 3 October 2003 when the Jeep Cherokee in which they were passengers was washed from a low-level ford crossing of the Blackwood River on Jalbar…
33y · Female·Combined drug toxicity, with thioridazine as the principal component, in the con…
Lou Ann Kelly, aged 33, died on 3 April 2003 at Royal Perth Hospital ICU from combined drug toxicity, primarily thioridazine, after consuming large quantities of prescription medications with alcohol. She collapsed at he…
25y · Male·Cardiorespiratory failure due to unpredictable additive effect of combination of…
George Shoobridge, a 25-year-old man with a long history of polydrug addiction, died from cardiorespiratory failure caused by the unpredictable additive effect of multiple drugs in combination (diazepam, morphine, codein…
30y · Male·Ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Charles Raymond Gamble died on 6 May 2003 by ligature compression of the neck while in lawful custody in an AIMS transport vehicle travelling from Perth Watch-house to Perth Central Law Courts. He had recently confessed …
Male·Severe head injuries due to motor vehicle accident
Two experienced bushmen, Alan Paul Toohey and Andrew Tasman Hill, died on 24 April 2003 when a police vehicle pursuing their unroadworthy utility truck crashed over an embankment on a remote unsealed road in Far North Qu…
31y · Male·Lymphocytic Myocarditis in association with Acute Pericarditis (viral origin, ae…
Norman John Morgan, aged 31, died at Carnarvon Airport on 21 December 2001 from lymphocytic myocarditis with acute pericarditis (viral origin). He presented to Carnarvon Regional Hospital on 20 December with chest and sh…
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