Palm Island Watchhouse - Coroner's findings

Eligibility - Queensland citizens
Principal Petitioner:
Sam Watson
C/- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit
The University of Queensland
Total Signatures - 1,552
Sponsoring Member: Premier Peter Beattie MP
Posting Date: 31/10/2006
Tabled Date: 31/10/2006
Responded By: Hon Judy Spence MP on 7/8/2007
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
The petition of the undersigned citizens of Queensland draws to the attention of the House the need to act urgently on the findings of the State Coroner in the matter of the death of an Aboriginal man Mulrunjie in the Palm Island watch-house on November 19 2006. Your petitioners therefore request the House to instruct the Police Commissioner to terminate the employment of Senior Sergeant Hurley forthwith and to provide every support and assistance to the Director of Public Prosecutions to finalize her assessment of the Coroner's findings so that criminal charges may be brought against certain parties who were responsible for the unlawful killing of Mulrunjie.