WEBVTT - Rallying for Kevin and Lynda 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:06.000 Just before nine o'clock last night, the jury returned guilty 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.400 verdicts against all three defendants. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.040 It was absolute shambles, to tell you the truth, just 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:11.960 absolutely really. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.840 Pallous blood on his clothing the day after the alleged. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.880 Attamp on a shallow mud bank and it fits Roy River. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:17.440 Basically. 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:19.160 I think most of the people are used to me, 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:20.520 there are good people. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.200 I think a really important question we need to ask 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.279 is how many Indigenous prisoners in Australia are innocent. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.800 This is Curtain, a podcast where we pulled back the 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.360 blinds to shine a light on the darkest parts of 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.160 our justice system and ask who are the victims. I'm 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:37.360 Amy Maguire. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.600 And I'm Martin Hodgson, a senior advocate for the Foreign 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:46.040 Prisoner Support Service. And a warning this series contains the 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:50.239 names of deceased peoples and has distressing content that might 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:57.360 upset some listeners. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:02.000 I want to know, well that might turn out of 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:08.160 jail even live, because he was done and he's seven 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.400 not out. We need justice toy today. 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:14.720 Thank you. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:20.640 That was Auntie Thelmer Henry, Kevin Henry's mum, speaking at 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.440 a rally that was held this week for Linda and 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:28.400 for Kevin in rock Hampton. This week's a special episode, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.399 and the reason we're late in bringing this episode to 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.960 you is because of that rally. This week, we want 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.720 to play you some audio clips of some of the 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.080 speeches that were given at the rally. They include Kevin 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:45.720 Henry's family, some of Kevin's strongest advocates over the years, 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.240 and some special visitors to rock Hampton who came from 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:54.560 Afar to lend their support, highly respected people in the 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.560 Aboriginal community. But first, I'm going to play you my 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.120 message to the people at the rally. I hope it 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.880 gives you a broad overview of what's happened so far, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.799 and it was designed to give those in attendance who 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:14.000 were not fully aware of the start to finish details 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:18.480 of Kevin's case a very brief wrapp up of what's happened. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.720 And also I welcome to those of you who are 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.120 new to the podcast who heard about it because of 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:29.720 the rally. The rally was covered by many newspapers, on 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:34.920 TV via NITV channel nine and channel seven, and on 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:40.040 many radio stations around Australia. From the lands of the 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.560 Jyngung people, I extend my respects to durable elders past 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:49.000 and present, and express my deepest appreciation to those who 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:53.320 are here today and all who have gathered. From the 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:57.280 very first day, Amy Maguire asked me to investigate the 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:03.200 case against Kevin Henry. I had doubts. Everyone I spoke 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.000 to gave me the same view of what had happened. 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:11.280 The police got the wrong man, Curtin didn't do it. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:16.400 But speaking with Yasmin Johnson, I soon realized this wasn't 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.760 just about the police getting the wrong man. This was 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:24.200 a total system failure led by people in the police 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:29.120 force who had no intention or interest in getting justice 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:33.600 for Linda. In fact, the police at the time said 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.200 in their own words, all they were interested in was, 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:42.720 and I quote, getting a black for a black Many 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.840 many people were accused of Linda's murder by the police. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.960 In fact, they originally had four separate people charged in 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:55.920 two different sets of circumstances. It was absurd. There was 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:00.800 no real investigation, just pure racism and a desire to 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:05.240 lock up any blackfellow. Kevin, as we all know, was 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:11.360 that unlucky man. Like everything in this case, even getting 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.800 my hands on the original court transcripts was a battle. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.400 But once I did and I was able to launch 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.960 a full investigation and review of Kevin's case with Amy 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.719 as part of our Curtain the podcast series I Knew. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.440 We could not and would not stop until Kevin Henry 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:35.000 walked from prison a free man. Quite simply, what our 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:40.320 investigation shows is clear Kevin was forced by the police 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:44.800 to confess to a crime he did not commit. He 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.920 has rightly maintained his innocence for more than twenty five years, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:54.120 and the evidence supports him. There was never any eyewitness 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.599 in court or to this day, who saw Kevin commit 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:02.599 this crime. There is no forensic evidence of any kind 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.880 that has ever been discovered that links Kevin to this crime. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:11.360 There is no DNA evidence, and much of the evidence 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:16.080 presented at Kevin's trial proved that whoever committed this crime 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.840 would have been covered in mud and water and needed 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.080 access to a car. Kevin did not have access to 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:28.760 a car. He was fast asleep at the time and 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.279 did not have one drop of water nor one speck 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:37.440 of mud on his clothes, shoes, or body. What the 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.560 evidence does tell us is that the police got the 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.880 wrong man. The trial was deeply flawed, and the justice 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.600 system found Kevin Henry guilty of a crime he did 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.960 not commit. As these words are being spoken to you, 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.599 I'm working in my living room, where I've been for 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.760 the past twelve months, fighting for Kevin Henry his freedom 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.960 and fighting to deliver justice for Linda. I want you 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.280 to know that we are making good progress and that 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:13.200 those in power now understand we know the truth. Every 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.240 day is spent reading from hundreds of pages of court transcripts, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:23.120 examining evidence, speaking with experts around the world, and writing 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.960 the legal documents that show the truth of what happened 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:32.120 at Tanuba House all those years ago. We have new evidence, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.360 we have heard from new witnesses, and we have uncovered 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:41.680 the police's tactics that sent an innocent man to jail. Thankfully, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.760 those police officers are no longer in the force, but 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.800 exposing their disgraceful actions and the serious failings of the 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.839 justice system is a vital step we must take for Curtain, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:59.240 for Linda, and for all First Nations peoples who have 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.480 been treated in in anything but just way. We are peaceful, 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.520 loving people, rich in the foundations of who we are. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:12.560 All we seek is justice. So I ask you to 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.000 join me in calling on the Queensland Governor and the 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:20.440 Attorney General to set curtain free. I thank each and 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.240 every one of you for being there today and for 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:27.760 sending that message loud and clear. Know that I will 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.560 not rest until Kevin is a free man and Linda 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:36.560 has the justice her and her family deserve. Curtin has 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:41.400 committed no crime, a crime has been committed against him. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:49.440 May our voices spread across this land. Free Kevin Henry. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.960 But before I play you those audio clips, I want 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.240 to make one quick point. The rally was held at 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.720 t Enuba House with the permission of the Queensland Coastguard, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.880 who currently o what was once known as to Nuber House. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.960 It was a peaceful rally held in the morning that 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:13.080 extended until around lunchtime. In attendance were elders from Wurabinda 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:19.240 and Rockhampton, durable elders there to perform a special smoking ceremony, 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:25.480 young and old, there seeking justice for Cabin and seeking 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:30.760 some finality, justice and healing for Linda and her family. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:36.360 And yet despite this, the police made twelve separate patrols 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.520 of the event and set up on the opposite side 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.360 of the river with binoculars to observe the event. What 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.520 was the point of this other than to intimidate those 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.800 who were there, who were purely undertaking their democratic right 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.560 to call for an end of injustice. And I'll make 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.679 this point personally. If the police had done their job 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.680 twenty something years ago, we would not be in this position. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.720 Kevin Henry would not have lost nearly seventy percent of 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:11.679 his life to the prison system, and Linda's family would 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.640 not have suffered twenty five long years of pain and 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:20.160 agony of not really knowing what happened to their mother, 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:26.520 their daughter, their auntie, their loved one. This police behavior 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.400 is unacceptable and it has to stop. And that's why 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.880 more people have to join in in supporting these two 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:42.040 families who have undergone such an injustice because it keeps continuing. Now, 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.559 I'm going to play for you some of the audio clips. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.800 We're going to begin with some of Kevin's elderly uncles 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.760 and aunties who have known Kevin his entire life and 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.920 who are calling for his freedom and for justice for Kevin, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.480 and for peace and justice for Linda's family. The audio 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.839 quality at the beginning is not great, but please listen on. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:11.320 These two families who have suffered deserve your time and attention. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.440 Today we just asked that you know and plead Kevin's 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.160 case that he will be set free. You know. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.040 He's due. You know it's due to him. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.680 Now, yeah, thank you. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.480 I am Wanton. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.040 I just want to speak on about Kevin. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.120 Kevin. I've known Kevin all my life. Anne. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.520 This is where the event took place here, right in Kanouba. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.680 This is where it all happened here. This is where 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.800 Kevin and was framed. Who was framed under this house 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:50.640 here and you know he's been crazy's birthday. He locked 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.240 up with the twenty five years of his life and 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.120 they did nothing wrong. Come on, he's a political prisoner. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:56.760 Let him out. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:57.280 Come on. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.160 You know we need justice for the family and for Kevin. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.160 Come on, you people that get beyond the family and 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.280 Kevin Henley, the Foundation and you know, I just could 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.160 thank you very much to Gasmin Johnson and have family 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.720 who's took by Kevin for the last twenty five years 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.840 of their life, and have family and Kevin Without Jasmine 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.440 and with that, Martin Archie and Amy and the Maguire, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.120 this wouldn't took place without these people. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.160 Now, I need the people. 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.120 I'll say him falls for Kate, Gasmin, Amy and my 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:39.520 advoters because this wouldn't happen without them. Yeah, and come 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.600 on your people, beneath justice to Kevin. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:48.480 Bring email on money Moon, bring Kevin alone. Hello everybody, 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.360 I'm Michelle Lisha. This morning, we brought Anna del Marin 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.200 with this, with this. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.920 Dudly event to get out, to get her sign out. 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:03.480 We want to pick the Palachet government. And now that 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.520 Martin Odgers and Amy has come on board, things are 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.680 starting to happen now and we need everybody in this community, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:17.320 rock Anton community, to stop keeping your mouth shut, speak 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.000 up if you know something about it. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.800 Come and see the people. Come and see Amy, Come 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.360 and see my know my silence. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.600 This young boy gone for twenty six, twenty six years, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.079 and no one knows the plight that his mother has suffered. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:39.160 I've been in Warabinda since her curtain left, and I've 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.439 seen Arlie Thelma deteriorate. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.040 This mother is suffering every night. 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.000 She cries. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:54.600 For her son because there's no people or no person at. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.040 Power to help her. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.160 But now we've got this help. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.840 We've got her as an Aboriginal community or First Nation people, 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:08.440 we've got to support this movement for Palischet government and 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.800 bring all these corrupt, a use of powers of police to. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:18.240 Justice, taken away people's rights, but they can't take away 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:19.920 our soul and our spirits. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.320 There's be here since day one when our creator. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.600 Created our people of this land, and there's always justice, 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:30.000 and there was. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.920 Always laws, and there was all the right way to 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:32.760 do things. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:41.480 And the disease that follows through the colonization still flows 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.800 through every country that has been invaded of their indigenous 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:50.720 brothers and sisters around this world, in these countries. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.000 And it happened to one of ours. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.600 And we know Brockamter knows ceneral queens and knows queens 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.160 and knows, and this nation knows. Then what happened here 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:07.040 on these grounds did never have happened, but it didn't, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:12.600 and it was covered up and circumstantial evidence was made 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:17.160 to look like proove you know, lies told all the time. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.640 And I need these couples stew back in the days. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.760 And I've seen the regular video footage of seven Kevin's 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:30.400 so called confession, and I tell you, my brother, he 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:35.120 was still hung over, still have chides up, And I 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.040 just want to say every bethday of Kevin. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:44.040 From our family in the show, and that gang and. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:47.360 Decided that brother looked theirs. The doors open and we 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.480 gotta foot of that door. Then it's not gonna close 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.640 that door. And I gotta kick that door in, kick 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.360 that door in that they've been hiding behind those time. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.880 All the truth, you know, all the truth that was 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:05.720 hidden and concocted lies the people in this town. But 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.120 we're on the police force at the time. That's still here. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.240 Some have died, some have moved on, but there's people 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:16.400 here and rock after those those people knows then what 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.880 happened here a long time ago. There's still freshing a 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:25.040 lot of people's minds. There's still fresh in a lot 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:30.760 of people's mind And I'd like to thank I am 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.840 in my outing for get me in the world again. Yeah, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.440 but we want another track myself. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:42.280 But we always fight for justice, whether for example like 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:46.840 Capain case or any other case. We know it's not right. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.280 We know there's a lot of wrong done. Even today, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:49.600 when you. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.000 See people walking in the street, you know you always 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.120 get that look, or someone walking outside of the street 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.000 or the foot path down to pass a black flow. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.760 We might be prefer mathematics at the university. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.040 I don't know that, you know, take a lot of 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:09.160 brilliant black who was sitting around here not on five. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.400 People who know the law too, and they use that 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:13.600 and they see. 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:18.840 Through all the rubbish, you know, all the blind little 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:23.080 roads that the government does. They've played all the policemen, 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:28.320 all the coppers know they have an agenda. They have 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.840 an agenda wiping out our race, wiping out the truth, 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:37.240 covering up the truth in the Curtain's case, a big 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:37.760 cover up. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:39.120 You know. 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:45.520 That was Kevin's cousin, uncle Doug Graham from Murabinda. Now 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:50.200 you'll hear from Yasmin Johnson. Yasmin's been Kevin's most staunch 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.360 advocate for all these years. She's the one that brought 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:59.120 this case to Amy Maguire's attention and kick started this 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:03.040 whole new inventstigation and the podcast that Amy and I 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.760 have created. He hasmen comes from a radical black family 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.359 who have always been involved in politics and bringing the 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:12.960 truth into the light. 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:19.200 So every time Kevin would apply for parole to the 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.920 state board, they'd refuse him. So that's when I sort 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.679 of got on board and use my well, asked my 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.880 dad too. When Actick was running to have a talk 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.280 Michael White, have a talk to the parole board and 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.720 see what's happening. So they would use breaches like you 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.320 would do something wrong in the prison, They'll breach out 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.360 throwing the du and that'll against that'll go against your 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.000 prison termb you know, any little thing if you talk 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.480 back and say, you know, have a guard of screws, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.560 and felt breaching for anything, because he was a talker, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.720 like Norman said, straight out stood up for his rights. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.359 So all these sort of things went on and on 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.159 and on, and now he's up. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.480 That was that was his fifteen year mark. 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.320 Now it's twenty five years and he's still sitting there, 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:08.120 still getting refused parole by the State Parole. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:09.639 Board based in Brisbane. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.720 So I contacted my cousin here, Amy the Choir, who 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:20.600 was living in Sydney working at newspaper The Mitill the newspaper. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:22.919 I emailed him when I came back from Alice Springs, 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.920 I was living over there, and I said, Amy, your local. Well, 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.560 my mother told me that contacted and haven't got Kevin's 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.560 story because you know, she's a rocky girl who might 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.560 be interested, and in which she was. So then she said, 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.439 oh I have to talk to I've got contacts and whatever. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:43.160 So then Amy got in contact with Martin Hodson. Now 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.840 Martin deals with prisoners that are locked up all around 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:50.080 the world, not here in Australia. People that go overseas 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:54.399 and get into trouble get locked up. Martin helps these people. 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:59.280 He's worked in eighteen different continents around the world. When 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.040 he had a look at Kevin Henry's case, he could 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:07.040 not believe all the bullshit, all the floors, all the 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:13.679 different lies, all the different statements, all the different statements 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:19.320 that were changed from the peace station to the courthouse. 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.639 When he went to court, everything was rigged. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.440 It was all lies. And we all know that everybody's 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:26.080 sitting here. 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:31.159 So what Martin has done now, he's got a fine 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.560 tooth comb and he's just pulled it right through from 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.160 the day it all happened here at Chanooba House right 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:43.320 up until today. Martin he's a professional, he's a senior 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.880 advocate and he said, this is the worst case. 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.680 He's ever seen in his career. 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.639 Now, this man works around the world, he's done no 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.840 working in Australia. But Kevin Henry, he's taken this on. 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.000 So you know, we need to appall Martin Hodson and 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:04.359 his work. He's done a really great job. That's why 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.520 you will see he on the Curtain podcast before us 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:12.600 and I think I contacted Mahma Brickprap I used to 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.880 talk on Talk Black with Gregory back in the day. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.000 Who's not who would have heard me talking about this 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:21.479 same story about the parole board and the prison system 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.560 and how Kevin has been treated, and not only that, 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.320 all of our mold being treated and what's happened with 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.240 the recommendations in the black des and custing nothing, but 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.479 they're not being practiced. We don't even have Nadoff anymore 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.760 out in the prisons. We don't even have We're struggling 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.520 to get our elders out there for Elder's Day because 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.960 the money and just the red neck take that's going 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:47.560 on in our country today. So I'll go back to Martin. 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:51.560 Martin's he works look right through. He's up three four 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.320 o'clock in the morning working on the Kevin Henry case 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:59.439 to build a case and to present it to the 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:04.760 Attorney the Attorney General and the Governor of Australia because 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.000 we have to deal with all this the racism and 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:12.000 the discrimination. He at a local level and state level, 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.639 Martin wants to go straight to the top. And if 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.520 you can release prisoners from around the world, eighteen different continents, 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.320 I'm sure we can get Kevin Henry out and all 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.520 these other political prisoners that are sitting in prisons right 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.000 around Australia. And I think we need to have people 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.320 like Martin Hodson come be the Central Queensland and bust 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.800 open this corrective services because this system is over eighty 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:36.720 years old. It was set up in the World War 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:37.240 One days. 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:40.119 The system is parole board system. 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.280 You see how all our mob got to come out 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:44.040 and they're going back in again. 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:46.560 Well this is this is how old this system is. 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.360 It was set up in World War One, and our 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.160 mobil is sitting filling up in the prisons all these years, 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:56.639 and Kevin Henry's not getting out because of this system. 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.720 You understand what I'm talking about. Now Here there's a 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:03.840 bit of a clear picture with Martin and what he's doing. 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:06.440 So they want a we want to retroll. 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.240 Yeah, that's right, but I think at the moment they 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:10.920 want to give him out as quick as they can 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:13.600 so they can work better with him. If he's in 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.919 a system on parole, well there's might be restrictions, but 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.320 if they can give him out in a queen's pardon. 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.120 On a queen's pardon, well they got sort of more 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:25.560 free room to move with him. And you know this 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:31.119 is also for Kevin's family. They've been struggling with this 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.760 for many years. You know, they didn't have the help. 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.199 They didn't have Kevin didn't have the help when he 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:39.199 went to court that day. No, a lot of his 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:40.919 family was home and more of mind and reading it 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:41.520 in the paper. 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:47.160 They're looking at Kenny in the paper. That's where does 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.359 that happen today? When it happened then back then? 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:54.560 That was Yasmin Johnson. The next voice you'll hear is 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:58.760 that of Gwendas Stanley. Gwenda is an incredible advocate for 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:04.920 all Aboriginal peace. On Invasion Day this year, large banners 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:09.720 in Brisbane were held up saying free Kevin Henry. They 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:14.159 were organized by Gwenda and she did that literally overnight. 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:18.639 Now Gwenda was mceing the event, and I have a 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:22.320 feeling she might have seen those police patrolling and thought 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:23.959 she'd drop a little truth. 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:25.800 See the black man. 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:28.320 No one really gives a fuck about black men in 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:32.840 this country. Sorry for the language, people, but we're angry. 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:36.320 We got every right to be angry because the history 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:38.240 of this country runs through the brains of each or 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:42.000 one of every one of us here today, Let's look 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:46.879 at the history of the Queensland Police Service eighteen sixty three. 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:51.520 In twenty fourteen, on January first, the Queensland Police Services 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:55.440 celebrates one hundred and fifty years. Let's go back before 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.800 eighteen sixty three, before your Queensland Police Act, and go 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:02.680 back to the Native police. We have many massacre sides 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:06.480 around here. Let's not forget our grace here was established. 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:09.840 Let's not forget our canambula iides viol and the rest 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:13.000 of the station's Derandra Baranba now which is Sherberg. 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:14.480 Let's forget. 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:17.280 Let's not forget about the Native police that came in 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:19.800 and had done the job before they add their queens 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:24.000 and Police Services. I like tock knowledge of paying my 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:27.560 respect everyone here today. But this isn't a heartbreaking day 0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:30.440 for all of us. Not only is it only Kevin's birthday, 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:31.520 there's also. 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:33.560 Twenty five years with an injustice. 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:33.800 In this country. 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:37.320 We thank GNDA for everything she did on the day 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:41.439 and everything she's done for Curtin. This is also a 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:45.479 good time to mention that along with Gwenda making the trip, 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:49.560 so did her partner David tex Chapman, who you've heard 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:53.159 on this podcast. If you go on to Curtain the 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:57.679 podcast the facebook page, you can see video of David 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:00.439 giving a speech at the rally, as well as a 0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:04.000 number of other videos of those who attended and gave 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:07.320 speeches on the day. Now, the next voice you'll hear 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:10.800