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Lex Wotton challenging legal ban in High Court

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 26/05/2011 - 6:04pm

Released last year from jail, Lex Wotton has been given a four-year media ban as part of his parole conditions, which prevents him from attending forums on Palm Island without the permission of Queensland authorities. Together with a great legal team including Allens, Levitt Robinson, Ron Merkel QC and Kris Walker, a landmark High Court case on representative democracy, political participation and the right to free speech is running a case to fight Lex's gag order. The case is set down for August.

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Australian deaths in custody - Twenty years later - Nothing has changed - The answers do exist

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 09/04/2011 - 11:15am

Australia has one of the world’s worst deaths in custody records. As a researcher I have compared Australia 's deaths in custody record in terms of proportion to populations with other countries. Deaths in custody includes prison and police custody. We compare badly with even Apartheid South Africa .

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Killer cops must be arrested, charged and jailed for murder, no more cover ups!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 17/03/2011 - 1:11pm

Below is an article by Nathan Paull from the Townsville Bulletin which extensively quotes Palm Island Mayor Alf Lacey on the indigenous communities reaction to the outrageous decision by the Qld police to not charge the police who sabotaged the investigation into Cameron "Mulrunji" Doomadgee death at the hands of police whilst in custody on Palm Island.

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Queensland police continue cover up of Doomadgee's death

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 30/11/2010 - 4:59pm

In another outrageous move by the Queensland Police Force, the Deputy Police Commissioner Kathy Rydners has been given the task of whether to discipline six police officers for their role in sabotaging any investigation of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island in 2004. The problem is that she has previously awarded bravery awards to two of the police officers involved in combating the protest on Palm Island which saw the Police station and Court House destroyed after locals heard that the results of Doomadgee's autopsy.

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Lex Wotton released from gaol

Submitted by Flowerpower on Mon, 19/07/2010 - 8:37pm

Lex Wotton, who was jailed in 2008 for his part in the "riots" after the death Mulrunji Doomadgee at the hands of police. Outrageously whilst Chris Hurley and other police never spent a day in jail, Lex was jailed for six years but has been released on parole. Interestingly his parole bars him from talking to the media - thus further attempting to silence the voices of protest over deaths in custody.

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