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Are there two laws - one for black and one for white?
Issue 52 - 31 Mar 2004
People on Cape York are suffering from Alcohol Management Plans which continue to operate under the lie they are community-driven and that there is one law for all.
On Friday there were reports that as many as 280 offences have been recorded under the new laws to the end of January.
These figures would not have included a woman from Lockhart River who was reported as being charged just six days after the so-called ‘Winegate’ affair.
To date not one single person who was on that plane has been charged.
The people on Cape York communities do not have the capabilities to pay large fines and they do not have the capabilities to find the seemingly endless number of loopholes the government seems to be able to produce from nowhere.
First we had the silent cover-up of ‘it’s in the hands of the CMC’ and now we have the debacle of the government and police using the excuse of not even knowing what their own law is.
I call on the Member for Cook, Jason O’Brien, to put an end to this side-stepping so the people of Cape York can see for themselves that this is not a case of ‘one law for us and one law for them’.
Bruce Gibson
Cape York
 
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