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Troubled former Australian Idol winner Kate DeAraugo faces court

Following her drug-driving charges.

Kate DeAraugo has appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to apply to get her drivers licence back.

The troubled former Australian Idol winner is currently disqualified from driving and is serving a community corrections order after she was caught driving under the influence of drugs twice in the space of three months in 2017. 

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9News reports the case was adjourned, with DeAraugo ordered to undertake a course before her next hearing on October 24. 

This will mark the second time since 2015 that DeAraugo has been disqualified from driving. 

The 32-year-old was pulled over by police in the regional Victorian town of Shepparton in June last year, where she tested positive to ice.

A search of her car uncovered more methamphetamines, a tomahawk axe and a large knife.

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DeAraugo was pulled over again by police in Castlemaine last September, where law enforcement found two small snap-lock bags of ice in her handbag, as well as a knife that she claimed was an ‘antique’.

The singer later pleaded guilty to eight charges and received a 12-month community correction order and was warned by a Bendigo magistrate that she could expect ‘a long period in custody’ if she continued to commit drug-related offences. 

DeAraugo will return to court on October 24.

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