‘Watershed moment’: horror and hope from inquiry into Queensland police

The independent commission of inquiry into the Queensland police service’s responses to domestic violence incidents has heard from current and former officers, among others. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP

Of all the shocking allegations heard during five weeks of public hearings by a commission of inquiry, one conversation between two Queensland police officers stood out for Betty Taylor.

The alarming allegation was that police did not investigate the suspicious death of a victim as she and her partner were “a pair of scumbags” who lived in a “shit area in a shit house”.