Wicked Pickets at Parliament
Channel: Workers BushTelegraph
Date: 2015-11-17

Wicked Pickets Petition presented to Jennifer Howard MLA for Ipswich to change the law to prevent villification of women.

On 25 July 2015 police attempted to prevent a march of people from Reddacliff Place to Parliament House under the pretext that they had insufficient resources to regulate traffic. Instead the officer in charge, Sgt Michael Skodel, took it upon himself to force people onto the footpath by shouting and abusing them, by pushing, nay assaulting them and threatening to arrest them. Two motorcycle police used their vehicles to dart in on the march thus putting participants and their children at risk.

Ian Curr
November 2015