
Tamar Hopkins
@tamarhopkins2
racial profiling and police accountability researcher and lawyer for 18 years, PhD, white 4th generation occupier on Wurundjeri land
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05-05-2014 11:03:08
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grateful to Overland Journal for publishing this piece from a group of us who presented at, and attended, Carumba Institute's anti-racism symposium last week. it was an incredible event - i learned so much. overland.org.au/2025/01/the-qu…






Over the last few years, we have witnessed the expansion of police powers and the encroachment on our rights to peaceful protest, with no corresponding measures to monitor or hold police to account when things go wrong. rightnow.org.au/opinion/ever-i… via Right Now Magazine






1. Disarm the police - police in the UK don't routinely carry guns. 2. We need an Independent Investigation. The police chief has already said the police were justified. 3. We need housing and community health metal health not police. …ribyrnonghobsonsbay.starweekly.com.au/news/police-sh…

Lauren Stefanou, the acting principal legal officer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in NSW, says FPOs “not only grant police sweeping powers, they give police a blank cheque to surveil, stop, search, arrest and charge Aboriginal children and adults”. theguardian.com/australia-news…
