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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Smee Queensland correspondent

Meet the whistleblowers who exposed Queensland’s domestic violence failures: ‘I was warned they would pulverise me’

Kate Pausina
Former Queensland police sergeant Kate Pausina accuses the force of covering up its failures in domestic violence cases. Photograph: David Kelly/The Guardian

A former senior Queensland detective has accused police of covering up their own failures in cases where vulnerable women died after seeking police protection, and alleges she was ordered to “protect the organisation’s reputation at all costs”.

And a whistleblower from within the Queensland coronial system who reported alleged systemic failures in domestic and family violence-linked deaths claims she was warned she would be “pulverised” if she ever spoke out.

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