Queensland MP cancels meeting with Rockhampton mob leader Torin O’Brien

Labor MP for Rockhampton, Barry O'Rourke (at right with Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk) will no longer be meeting with Torin O’Brien, who led an angry mob outside an Indigenous teenager’s home on Sunday. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP

The Queensland government has cancelled plans for an MP to meet the former leader of a far-right “patriots” group, who encouraged a mob to surround the Rockhampton home of an Indigenous teenager.

Torin O’Brien had been invited to sit down “with police and other stakeholders” by Rockhampton MP Barry O’Rourke after he led a group of 30 people who swarmed the teenager’s home on Sunday.