Peppimenarti community founder and Wilson family matriarch Regina Pilawuk Wilson has lodged Federal Court action on behalf of herself and members of the extended Wilson family against the Lawler Labor Government, three ministers, and the NT Police Commissioner for alleged breaches of the Racial Discrimination Act by failing to provide policing in their community comparable to the level provided to non-Indigenous NT residents.
The originating application, lodged on April 26 and seen by the NT Independent, states that since 2019, the Jovi Boys gang have consistently violently attacked and menaced Wilson clan members and their properties, and that despite hundreds of complaints to police by the Wilsons and Deewin Kirim Aboriginal Corporation chief executive officer Ray Whear, police had taken no, or no adequate action, in response to these complaints of actual or impending violence.
What a shame NT Police, including horse patrols, have been sent to the Save Lee Point peaceful, singing group rallies. Maybe Ms Wilson is correct saying their calls for help have been ignored? Like Gunner, Pottsie an spin propaganda.
Surely this is a joke, after all the wonderful elders who are thanked time and again are all over this. If the police do anything they get it in the neck, as for non indigenous getting better policing, no they don’t, they suffer from predominately indigenous caused crime. Maybe we should be suing the NLC.
Guess Regina hasn’t been to Alice in the last 8 years, cos what happens out there has been occurring here in Alice the entire time, for the entire town, which includes non indigenous!
We have 000 calls left unanswered and unattended to daily and have done for years!
Join the club of NT Labor not keeping any territorial safe, no matter their skin colour!
Perhaps they should sue each other, after all it them and only them that are causing the trouble.