More than 30 community leaders – including a prominent former judge, lawyers, Indigenous elders, academics and others – have called on the president of the Queensland police union, Ian Leavers, to resign over an opinion piece they say expressed “outward racist ideology”.
A statement by the Queensland police service’s First Nations Advisory Group, co-signed by supporters, said they were “appalled” at Leavers’ “factually inaccurate” comments in the Courier Mail, including that a state treaty would result in the justice system favouring First Nations people.
