Members of Melbourne’s Indigenous community and supporters rallied on Sunday 13 February at the old GPO as part of a nation-wide day of protest against continuing Aboriginal deaths in custody and victimisation by police, focusing especially on recent events in Melbourne, on Palm Island, and above all the demand for a re-opening of the inquest into the death of a young man in Redfern. A long list of speakers included both Gary Foley and his son, Michael, and other Indigenous activists, as well as representatives of several of the groups endorsing this Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) action – including Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, Freedom Socialist Party, International Socialist Organisation, Radical Women, Socialist Alliance, Socialist Party, Women for Peace, and the new Indigenous party Your Voice. Organisers congratulated those present on the size of the turnout, but there were at least some in the gathering who felt the numbers should have been ten times as great …
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The campaign against the ‘Stolenwealth Games 2006′ is gaining momentum, and gst t-shirts were prominent
After speeches outside the GPO building the action moved up Bourke Street to the offices of the Queensland Government Travel Centre:
The march then carried on to the intersection of Bourke and William Streets where there was a three-minute silence and sit-down in memory of those who have died:
The march ended at the Melbourne Magistrates Court and Custody Centre, where speakers included the Socialist Party’s Steve Jolly pointing out that you don’t have to go to Redfern to find injustice against Indigenous people – it’s alive and well in Smith Street:
Speakers from other supporting organisations: