Bamaga Police Station have been jointly recognised in the Premier's Reconciliation Awards for their role on the Northern Peninsula Area (NPA) Licensing.
Mr Riley was mentally unwell and his family says he waited for hours to see a doctor. He never did, instead dying after he was tasered by police 10 times in less than two minutes.
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To address Aboriginal deaths in custody, we need to look beyond the past three decades since the royal commission into this national disgrace and examine how colonisation perpetrated genocide against First Nations people on this soil. The ongoing indifference towards Aboriginal lives has resulted in an estimated 470 further Aboriginal deaths in custody – and not one conviction of those responsible – since the royal commission handed down its damning findings, 30 years ago to this day.
There is no escaping the link between our colonial past and the persisting high levels of Indigenous incarceration.
Credit:James Brickwood
Aboriginal people deserve peace, not the perpetual pain families of victims now must endure.
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Subscriber only Police were alerted to a violent domestic incident by a South Burnett man after he pushed his partner into a wall and broke her nose. Appearing before Murgon Magistrates Court via video link, the defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to unlawfully assaulting a woman occasioning bodily harm, breaching a domestic violence order, and failing to appear in court. Police prosecutor Sergeant Pepe Gangemi said police were called to a Murgon address on February 27 by the defendant, who admitted to breaking his partner s nose during an altercation. Police received a triple-zero call from the defendant. He said, I broke her nose , Sergeant Gangemi said.
Manâs alleged house of horrors revealed Police allege a man who threatened to âseverâ his girlfriendâs spinal cord and called himself the âExterminatorâ tormented her over several terrifying months.
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Subscriber only A man who allegedly turned his Logan home into a violent house of horrors, where police allege he sprayed the word slut over the walls, hit his girlfriend and himself with a hammer and threatened to drill in her kneecaps has been denied bail. Matthew John Hill, from Slacks Creek, appeared via video link from prison at the Beenleigh Magistrates Court for a bail application hearing on Wednesday.