o sung wu,

I'm sure there are others in the QPS who also feel ashamed.

But I feel they too have been let down by the DPP's decision and Beatties' politicisation of the whole affair from the outset.

What will he achieve tomorrow when he visits Palm Island?

What was essentially a matter that required a steady and impartial hand of both legal and political leadership has become a farce.

That Col Dillon, a decorated Indigenous police officer has resigned in disgust is another indicator of how symptomatic this issue is of a failure of government to understand its own political identity as instrumental in matters of law.

Underlying notions of equality before the law are for me organic concepts of human brotherhood as well as tenets of law. From this arises a duty to observe good faith in dealings between members of communities.

That good faith and the development of a joint moral community (albeit incremental and small) has been irreparably damaged over many years by government and police.

It has now been ripped apart in shreds and scattered to the winds.

The Palm Island incident was treated like another day in the office by Beattie et al, another Indigenous uprising requiring the usual paternalistic platitudes politicians are well versed in handing out. It was not.

Did you know that Palm Island has the highest murder rate per capita in the world?

I know a few aboriginals from Palm Island. I'm part aboriginal myself. As a homeless guy I usually meet up with them around the food vans certain nights. I can say with perfect honesty that they are the biggest trouble makers there. Because they are from such a violent community they seem to know no other way of behaving after one too many drinks. A real shame because when they are sober they are largely really nice people and easy to get along with.

I was talking to a Brisbane cop about the Mulrunji incident and he knew the officer accused of killing him. Said he was a top bloke too. To work on such an island with such a small community requires a good relationship with the locals and an understanding of their special needs. I think the cops there have been doing their best but its a trying workplace.

What happened was probably a fight between the two where the cop defended himself and got too carried away. Mulrunji was a big man and I'm sure he was dishing out a few hard blows. I don't think the cop was much in the wrong there. However, I do think he tried to cover it all up and thats unforgivable. A split liver from falling over! Give me a break. The community isn't stupid and I'm not surprised they became furious and burned down the court house.

You will all be pleased to know that the system you hate so much will now hold a review into the whole matter of the death and the police officer's part in it.

Hopefully, the enquiry will shed some light on the behaviour of the undeniably drunken deceased, his general attitude towards law and order and the police.

Palm Island and its inhabitants have hardly demonstrated peace and tranquility in the past.

Ever noticed the level of 'racism' is directionally proportional to the amount of contact people have with aborigines? I'm sure anyone who had to deal with drunk and violent aborigines on a regular basis would be disgusted by them and develop a very negative attitude, wish would then be referred to as racism, by people insulated by distance. If the aborigines think they can 'sing' the cop to death then why not leave it at that?

Wayne Smith is not part Aboriginal at all. I know of him and his Right wing activities here in Brisbane. He and his lunatic right wing coterie of cowardly mates are atypical of the scum Aboriginal people have to put up with here in Brisbane.

I ask everyone, even those I may disagree with in discussion, not to take him seriously at all. We don't need his kind of hysterical opportunism and racism here on OLO.

ts clear that he can't help but become an opportunist after people die tragically, its what he does for a living.

I have asked GY to remove his post

It is almost funny how much outrage there is when a 'white' person is involved in the death of someone with aboriginal blood despite the fact that almost all aborigines murdered are murdered by other aborigines. Every effort has been made to provide opportunities for aboriginal people (not to mention the zillions of dollars) but the sympathy quotient is running out because the good intentions and hard currency have been squandered by people that find getting blotto and blaming whitey is just too easy.