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By Victor Hart, 19 October, 2006

Not long after the Palm Island police station was burnt down by locals to express their grief at the death in custody of a well-loved member of their community, Peter Beattie, the Premier of Queensland, issued a
statement saying the community council had shown poor leadership leading up to and during the community upsurge. Beattie quickly produced a five-point plan to soothe non-Indigenous outrage that Indigenous people
were being “naughty people” - again. It happens all the time.

This approach was not unsurprising: it’s what premiers and politicians often do when confronted by distressing social issues. Politicians understand …