Federal Court Justice Debbie Mortimer found the Queensland Police Service's failure to suspend Sergeant Chris Hurley after Doomadgee's death was unlawful discrimination.

She also found police had contravened the act in their treatment of Aboriginal witnesses, submitting inaccurate information to the coroner, and failing to "communicate effectively" with the community to defuse tensions.

The court ordered $220,000 in damages to Mr Wotton and his family.

It will hear further arguments on whether a public apology is needed.

Why should Wotton get $200,000?

The Doomadgee family should be the only ones receiving compensation.

Karma has caught up with Hurley.

Wotton was a rioter who may well have caused someone elses death.

Hopefully this piece of crap (Wotten) can use the $200,000 to payback some  the damage caused by his riot.

Real Australians would never applaud a rioter.

Mr Hammer wrote on Dec 5^th, 2016 at 3:17pm:


I guess they weren't real Aussies and neither was that Federal Court Judge.  Jolly good.

Aussie wrote on Dec 5^th, 2016 at 3:19pm:
Leftards and do-gooders aren't real Australians. They are leeches, parasites and termites.

Mr Hammer wrote on Dec 5^th, 2016 at 3:21pm:


Oh, okay then.  I guess that means the Government does not have to cough up to Wotton.  My mistake, shurely.

Real Australians would never applaud a rioter.

The Eureka Rebellion was a rebellion in 1854, instigated by gold miners in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, who revolted against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom. The Battle of the Eureka Stockade, by which the rebellion is popularly known, was fought between miners and the Colonial forces of Australia on 3 December 1854 at Eureka Lead and named for the stockade structure erected by miners during the conflict.[2] The rebellion lasted for less than half an hour and resulted in the deaths of at least 27 people, the majority of whom were rebels.

The event was the culmination of a period of civil disobedience in the Ballarat region during the Victorian gold rush with miners objecting to the expense of a miner's licence, taxation via the licence without representation and the actions of the government, the police and military.[3][4] The local rebellion grew from a Ballarat Reform League movement and culminated in the erection by the rebels of a crude battlement and a swift and deadly siege by colonial forces.

Mass public support for the captured rebels in the colony's capital of Melbourne when they were placed on trial resulted in the introduction of the Electoral Act 1856, which mandated full white male suffrage for elections for the lower house in the Victorian parliament, the second instituted political democracy in Australia.[3] As such, the Eureka Rebellion is controversially identified with the birth of democracy in Australia and interpreted by some as a political revolt.