Photos from Palm Island solidarity protest in Melbourne today
by Simeon Wednesday December 20, 2006 at 10:29 PM

Below are photos from today's Melbourne protest in solidarity with protests around the nation re Palm Island in Far North Queensland, Cameron Doomadgee's death in custody and the lack of action against the Queensland Police responsible for his welfare at the time.

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Photo: Robbie Thorpe speaking to the crowd
** More pics follow in the comments section to this story, to make it easier for me to upload. **

The day was very smokey, wind blowing smoke from Eastern Victorian fires, to blanket Melbourne http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?Australia6/2006354/Australia6.2006354.aqua You can see the smoke haze in several of the pics.

Read about the issues raised at today's protest, in discussion threads here at IndyMedia at http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/134196_comment.php and http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/134272.php

Some useful articles which I found linked from those discussions are http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20935882-601,00.html "Equal rigour would have avoided disgrace", an opinion piece by Tony Koch in The Australian, and http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20948403-3102,00.html "Indigenous leader quits", a story from the Courier Mail.

For some background on Palm Island, the following is good http://www.brisinst.org.au/resources/boe_andrew_palmisland.html "Palm Island: something is very wrong" by Andrew Boe in 2005.

You can also find larger versions of the photos at http://dimension100.com/camera/20061220_Melbourne_Doomadgee_protest/big and originals are available on request -- email sim at emotif.be

Note: I have not provided captions but perhaps some kind person could add a comment listing the names of the speakers?

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Len Cooper from the CEPU
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Greg from NTEU
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Senator Lyn Alison, Australian Democrats
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Dennis Walker, Aboriginal community, Brisbane
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Carmen Curihuentro, Mapuche Nation, Chile
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Alison Thorne, Indigenous Social Justice Association
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