The attorney General Rob hulls has put into place some very contentious changes to our Justice system to appease his social justice addiction and one that has caused some serious anxiety is the Koorie Court.
Having cases such as car and minor indictable offences is one thing but when it comes to serious sex and violence offences then that is a different story.
This week we saw an Aboriginal man named Steelie Morgan appeal against his sentence for horrific assaults on a 15 year old girl who he held prisoner for some 10 weeks and subjected her to a series of attacks where she was bashed,stabbed, and humiliated.
He attacked her with a full bottle of water over the head, threw a knife at her which struck her on the neck, and bit her nose. He even forced her to stay in a bedroom for nearly a month whilst he had sex with her knowing how young she was.
The sentence he got for all this was a paltry 18 months, but according to Justice Maxwell and Buchanan that term was manifestly excessive because, as an Aboriginal person he took part in a “sentencing conversation” about his crimes with Aboriginal elders in a Koorie Court room that had been traditionally “smoked” which was deemed to be emotionally draining and life changing.
Nothing has been said about the young girl he abused and whether she was Aboriginal or not. The Judges decision has to be one of the strangest ever heard and just goes to show how far our Judiciary have gone down the Rob Hulls Social Justice pathway that tries to paint Koorie offenders as separate from the mainstream.
Based on this case it is not only insulting to the victim, it puts Law abiding Koorie people in a difficult position as they are now being held up for ridicule and being painted as above the law.
What gives me the right to say that you might ask:
Well I am a proud Aboriginal person and I am sick to death of being jibed by people who know of my heritage. Whilst I am more than happy to take up a cause of Injustice because of a bad decision by a Judge when it comes to sentencing, this decision puts my stand on justice in question.