The authorities dictate law (as the community has no say as this country is not a democracy - true democracy exists in Switzerland, as Australia is still in law a penal colony of the British empire) for
"peace order and good governance" or at least that is what is spruiked by the 'authorities' (read corporation conglomerate commonly referred to as the government).
The police in Australia are not 'public servants', they do not work for us/you (the serfs), never have and never will.
The police are part of the executive, meaning they work for the 'government' (read corporations).
The police, in the respective states of Australia are corporations with a CEO.
Victoria Police has jumped on the corporate bandwagon as of December 2013, under the Victoria Police Act 2013.
The role of police is to keep the masses in order, subservient to corporate policy/rule.
Keep in mind that the general populous is told that police actions (or inaction) are for the
"greater good of the community"
A sign on the road with numbers encompassed by a red circle indicates that a bureaucrat decides that traveling at a velocity of 60km/h on a stretch of road is 'safe' even though (maybe) previously 80km/h was deemed safe as well.
So, if you are traveling in your automobile at an alleged
velocity of 62km/h and you are caught doing so, the corporation known
as the police will issue you a fine.
See example in illustration below:
This fine from an employee of a corporate entity commonly referred to as the police, is unlawful.
See article:
The NSW government states that only a 'government' can issue a 'fine'.
See:
http://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/publications/factsheets-and-resources/private-car-park-finespayment-notices
Even that statement alone is severely flawed, incorrect in law.
Remember this is done (allegedly) for the
"greater good of the community".
If you are witness to the process of the employee of the police obtaining your details in order to issue you a 'fine' you may want to 'caution' the employee of the corporation to withdraw any fine, as their actions are unlawful.
Obtain their full name, registered (badge) number, and the address of their place of business.
This information is needed to press criminal charges against the person who issued you the 'fine', at a later point in time.
Please note:
EVERY single fine (e.g. speed/redlight camera, toll) is unlawful and must be taken to 'court'.
From the news.com.au article of the 21st of May 2016 of the headline:
Top end community where women brawl in front of police has been let down by the system
Police watch in the background as two women throw punches at each other in the Queensland community of Aurukun.
“THEY’RE not bad people, they’ve been abandoned and neglected.”
That’s what David Martin said about the people of a Far North Queensland community almost 10 years ago and it remains true now.
At
the time, the township of Aurukun, home to approximately 1200 people,
had shown Australia its darkest side. A 10-year-old girl had been gang
raped by nine men in a case described as “
the tip of the iceberg”.
News over the years from the small, remote township on the western coast of the Cape York Peninsula has not been flattering.
A 2011 report declared Aurukun had one of the worst murder rates in the world. Last year alone there was the
shocking death of a man
who was run over as community members watched, there were shots fired
at police, there was a hammer attack and there were riots.
This week, Aurukun made national headlines again for all the wrong reasons. Teachers at a local school were
evacuated last Tuesday when a student allegedly threatened a teacher with an axe. The school has been closed for a week.
That incident was followed by mobile phone footage showing
women throwing fists at each other while police stood metres away and chose not to intervene.
The
news has cast the spotlight on Aurukun once again. Dr Martin, who first
visited Aurukun on a break from the University of Queensland in 1975
and subsequently decided to stay, says it’s not necessarily a bad thing
that the rest of Australia is watching. But the question is where to go
from here.
For 40 years he has held close ties with community
members. He’s overseen efforts to improve the lives of those who live
there and he’s written a doctorate in anthropology that draws deeply on
what he’s witnessed.
His
response to watching women circling in the orange dirt, trying to land a
punch, is simple: “My feeling is a degree of distress,” he told
news.com.au.
He says what Australians are seeing is “a truly
extraordinary community” and “a lost generation” but it’s not their
fault. Take a closer look, he says, and the
real problems are everywhere.
REAL PROBLEM WITH POLICING IN THE TOP END
In the
footage, police are seen standing by their vehicles and watching the
women brawl. It’s hard to look at, but it’s normal behaviour, they say.
Assistant
Police Commissioner Paul Taylor defended the inaction by police. He
said it was a matter of protecting the wider community.
“On occasion, the temperature within the community can raise quite rapidly because of one minor incident,” Mr Taylor said.
“Often,
when police get to these incidents, there are large numbers of
spectators and the complexities in Aurukun mean those people are all
related to the combatants, and they are highly emotionally charged.
“If
they do intervene, are they going to take it from a fair fight between
two individuals to having a large mob, who are highly emotive, start
fighting? On occasion, for the
greater good of the community, it’s
extremely difficult for us to intervene.”
The problem is bigger
than that. One reason it’s so difficult for police in Aurukun is because
many of them are rotated in and out from Cairns. It means they never
get to know the community and, perhaps more importantly, the community
never gets to understand them.
“Police have a very difficult job,” Dr Martin said.
“In
the emphasis on maintaining law and order in very difficult
circumstances, what is missing in terms of policing is community
engagement. In recent months there have been contingents of Cairns
police rotated through on six-week shifts.
“They never get to know
the people that way, they never get to establish meaningful
relationships with the community, including those who are ‘ringleaders’
in fighting. Police don’t really know who the key people are, and the
potential for escalation when police arrive at a fight is huge.
“If
they were known to and trusted by all sides, and if the police in turn
knew something of the individuals concerned, then I believe those
involved in fighting would be more receptive to intervention. Both sides
need to know the other.”
Aurukun is 800km north of Cairns on the western side of Cape York. Picture: Brendan RadkeSource:News Corp Australia
DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND DISCONNECTED YOUTH
There’s
a watch house in Aurukun that, at any one time, is likely to have many
young people locked up. It’s a bandaid solution to a much bigger
problem.
There’s been a demographic boom and there are more young
people in Aurukun than ever. Most feel alienated from the rest of
Australia but also find it difficult to connect with their own cultural
leaders.
“It’s a lost generation,” Dr Martin said. “Old people in
Aurukun tell me it’s a lost generation, that young people don’t listen
to them and they are heart sick about that.”
He said young men in
particular are looking for a way to express themselves. They have
leadership skills and energy but they’re channelling them into the wrong
areas.
“What we’re seeing with the violence in Aurukun is
increasingly the kind of group violence that we see in urban areas, in
gangs in some other remote Aboriginal communities, and in the urban US.
“What
the wider world offers in terms of education, employment and the like
is not seen as meaningful for far too many of the young men. What their
own society has to offer is also rejected.
They do not seem to respect
law and culture in the way previous generations did.”
He said the lives of young people in Aurukun are characterised by boredom.
“There’s
a lot of energy and creativity and they see no outlet for that. The
ringleaders are ringleaders often because more than others they
understand the hopelessness of their situation, and react to it.
They
have leadership and creativity and energy, but it is being directed in
an anti-social direction.
“We need to work with those ringleaders to see if they can’t be engaged. Locking them up only perpetuates the problem.”
Aurukun
is made up of five ritual groups comprised of often antagonistic
families with origins in different parts of Wik country. They all live
jammed together in a remote version of housing estates with no escape
from conflict which they find impossible to manage.
It’s a “dry
community”, meaning alcohol and drugs are banned. But the reality is
that drinking and using drugs is a big part of community life. There are
problems with domestic violence, too, and children missing school.
In
2008, Aurukun, along with eight other communities in the Cape, signed
up to a government-supported welfare reform project, but the money isn’t
going to the right places.
Aurukun Mayor Dereck Walpo
told the ABC this week he doesn’t know where much of the money has gone.
“A
lot of money has been spent in this community over the last eight years
but where’s it all gone?” he said. “I wish I knew. Where’s all the
positive outcomes?”
Indigenous boy Lewis Kooloika rides his bike through the dusty streets of Aurukun. Picture: Brendan RadkeSource:News Corp Australia
THE GOVERNMENT IS WATCHING, PREMIER SAYS
It
would be understandable for residents to feel like they’ve been
abandoned but Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says that’s not
the case.
“I’ll be catching up with the Police Commissioner today
for an update but we actually have a whole-of-government approach and my
director-general will be travelling up there next week,” she said.
“We
are closely monitoring the situation but I am very determined to make
sure that people in that community get access to jobs.”
Watching
is a theme in Aurukun. The State Government is watching. Police are
watching. Some locals say it’s part of what’s going wrong. Too much
watching and not enough action.
“They would not do that in other
places in Australia, so why should they do that here,” Aboriginal leader
Phyllis Yunkaporta said on Wednesday, referring to police standing by
idly while women traded blows.
“What message does it send to a child to see a fight and police standing by and watching?”
