I dont know how to give you the link for that pic, so leave it then' or ask Aus Nat to remove it as you asked me.

I dont care anymore...I dont want be the keeper of values on here, its not my job

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Jury-retires-in-Palm-Island-riot-case/2007/03/21/1174153123944.html

A jury charged with deciding whether four men violently rioted on Palm Island in November 2004 has retired to consider its verdicts.

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Teen 'heard voices' before raping child

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Teen-heard-voices-before-raping-child/2007/03/21/1174153135901.html

A teenage petrol sniffer heard voices that "made him horny" shortly before he raped a five-year-old boy at a remote Aboriginal community, a court has heard.

The 18-year-old was sentenced to four-and-a-half years prison, suspended immediately, in Alice Springs last week after pleading guilty to the crime in November.

He was 15 and staying with his uncle when he sodomised the boy at a Barkly community in the Northern Territory on October 23, 2004.

Before sentencing the youth, Justice Angel noted that he had also been sexually abused as a child and that he claimed to have heard voices.

Mr Angel also said the matter had taken a long time to move through the judicial system, and that the teenager had been in prison since his arrest in 2004.

excellent points mantra..

and a lot of these commnuities are way out in the bush..no police on call or even within an hour to help women and children sliced up by broken bottles , babies dropped in fires because of a drunken parent staggering around with a tiny infant..Couples ahving sex beside sleeping or even children awake and in full veiw..all these are done by adults in an alcohloic state.


yes there is a cycle of abuse, sexual and physical violence and it does go around that victims become perpetrators. But they still cannot make decisions for theyre consciences or other wise whilst they are drunk
  mantra , i think this would go a good way to explain the loss of values in their society..and the introduction of alcohol is the single biggest destroyer of Indigenous commnuities..very few can handle it the way whites can.

Mantra says...

" - the children are raped and they grow up to rape.  How did we let this happen.  Nobody knows what the answer is.  Perhaps it's the fact that 200 years ago the aboriginals were brutalised and murdered to such an extent that they have lost touch with their values."
 I would wholeheartedly agree with that.
We stop pple drinking by legislation and communities who are vigilant and who give  a care, the solutions lie with Indigenous commuities..they just need strategies to help them cope and implement good plans of action, so they do need eduactors to get them statred in the right direction...They have to reinstill values back into their lives and rather than educate the young pple with the old culture so much, they have to update it , so it becomes relevant to their lives .


Education by their own trained professionals is the way in schools especially, health care etc..They need theyre own pple to show them the way. Not patronising whites who cannot conceive what it is like to be born black and into a marginalised minority, and fight for freedoms and recognition in your own land.

They are marginalised, ignored and kept out of sight.       Genocide by stealth..ie: deliberate neglectful inaction by Government...theyll drink themselves to death sooner rather than later...let em go...........its murderous!!

Nothing less then murderous.

freediver wrote on Jun 14^th, 2007 at 5:29pm:


It is very sad that some of the people who join the army and police force do so because they have the inclination to dominate and be aggressive, abusing a position of authority.  I wonder if psychological assessment and background investigation coudl prevent these people from becoming police/army members in the first place. Or if training/counselling could redirect the attitude in a useful fashion.

The copper must be responsible. He and Mr Domagee enter a cell, Mr Domagee dies from injuries.

I have known coppers, their job is terrible.
Many of the people they deal with hate them, imagine that in your everyday job ?
They deal with a lot of pain in their job daily. The see the worst of humans. They become embittered and sarcastic, their only associates are other cops.
They become very hardened, as a necessity.

Mulrunji Doomadgee's death
Jun 21st, 2007, 11:14pm    What is legal is not always what is just.



Calm in Palm Island after verdict
A Queensland police officer charged after a Palm Island man died in his custody has been found not guilty of manslaughter and not guilty of assault.
The officer would be immediately reinstated and posted to the Gold Coast.
The Townsville Supreme Court jury of eight women and four men today took just over three hours to deliver its not guilty verdict on both charges.
Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley pleaded not guilty to one count each of manslaughter and assault over Mulrunji Doomadgee's death at the Palm Island watchhouse on November 19, 2004.
The death triggered riots on the island.
Last week, the trial heard Mr Doomadgee had died of internal bleeding after his liver was cleaved in two across his spine and his portal vein burst.
The injuries resulted from the application of what was described to the court as moderate to massive force.

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Palm Island family mulls civil action
Thursday Jun 21 09:55 AEST
A lawyer for the family of Mulrunji Doomadgee says the door is still open to pursue legal action against the police officer cleared of his manslaughter.

A Townsville jury found Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley not guilty of the manslaughter and assault of the 36-year-old Aborigine in the Palm Island watchhouse in north Queensland in November 2004.

The verdict has sparked anger and calls for the Doomadgee family to pursue civil action against Snr Sgt Hurley, Australia's first policeman charged over an Aboriginal death in custody.

Lawyer Andrew Boe said the family had asked him to investigate whether it could pursue further action against the officer, who acknowledged during the trial that his actions must have caused the death.

 
 
 
"The acceptance (by Snr Sgt Hurley) of having caused that injury by actions, albeit found by a jury in a criminal trial in the criminal standard as being not sufficient to attach criminal liability, I don't think closes the door on whether or not there's civil liability," Mr Boe told ABC radio.

Mulrunji died of internal bleeding after suffering a blow to the abdomen, which resulted in his liver being cleaved in two and his portal vein bursting, about an hour after being taken into custody for swearing.

Three medical experts testified the injuries could have occurred by Snr Sgt Hurley accidentally falling on top of Mulrunji with his knee protruding, or by the officer intentionally performing a "knee drop".

The officer told the court he "must have" fallen on top of Mulrunji, but added the incident was a "grey area."

Mr Boe said civil action could take place in a Supreme Court before a judge or jury.

He said civil courts had a lesser standard of proof than criminal courts."
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=272336

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How freaky is this ay Aussie! Same colours and everything.

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