WEBVTT - Disappeared and Murdered Aboriginal Women 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:01.760 Good. 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.440 Just before nine o'clock last night, the jury returned guilty 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:10.440 verdicts against all three defendants. It was absolutely shambles, to 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.040 tell you the truth, just absolutely really heaving blood on 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.560 his clothing the day after the alleged top. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.320 On a shallow mud bank and it fits through a river. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.680 Basically, I think most of the people are used. 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:21.680 To me, there are good people. I think a really 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.119 important question we need to ask is how many Indigenous 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:26.720 prisoners in Australia are innocent. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.240 This is Curtain, a podcast where we pulled back the 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.800 blinds to shine a light on the darkest parts of 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.600 our justice system and ask who are the victims. I'm 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.200 Amy maguire and I'm. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:43.400 Martin Hodgson, a senior advocate for the Foreign Prisoner Support Service. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.520 And a warning, this series contains the names of deceased 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:52.560 peoples and has distressing content that might upset some listeners. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.880 Welcome to Curtin the podcast. This week, I'm going to 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.880 begin the episode by reading the opening paragraphs of an 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:07.399 article written by my co host Amy McGuire in December 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:12.600 late last year. For those who want to read the 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:17.480 entire article, it's on Amy's substack, and I'll provide the 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:23.000 links on Curtain's social media pages, or you can just 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:29.040 search Amy McGuire substack dot com. The opening paragraph begins 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.600 today is a short article on two inquests that I'm 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.720 hoping to pay attention to over the coming months. Both 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.840 cases involve Aboriginal women who have disappeared and have not 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:46.560 yet been found. I've chosen the word disappeared deliberately. In 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.000 the absence of knowing. We have to be careful with language, 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:56.559 especially as inquests and investigations are still underway. For mine, 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.920 disappeared is still an active word, while murdered is closed. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.840 Disappeared means not placing culpability back on the victim when 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:10.320 we do not know the circumstances of their disappearance. But 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.000 unlike missing, there remains an active person or structure that 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:18.800 could be culpable or responsible for their disappearance. In the 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.480 absence of knowing, we must find a way to describe 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.600 this situation that leaves it open for any avenue of 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.560 justice and supports the family in whatever fight they wish 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:33.760 to wage on their loved ones. Behalf now, as I said, 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.120 that's an article that you can go and read on 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:42.960 Amy's substack and prior to Amy writing that piece. We 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.440 actually had a very lengthy discussion. As we have explained, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.919 as we often do about these issues and have done 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.919 over the last six years of making Curtain and working 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:59.280 on Kevin's case and a host of other cases and 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.800 working with families. That what you hear is just a 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:08.760 very distilled sample of what we discuss in the background 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:13.440 when working and as Amy described, using the word disappeared 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.760 was a very deliberate choice. And so today I want 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.200 to introduce you to a case that Amy goes on 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:25.040 to write about in that article and involves an inquest 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:31.440 that Amy attended. Now that is the case of a 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:36.080 twenty four year old Monique Club, an Aboriginal woman who 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.960 was last seen at Benlee Station in Brisbane on the 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.800 twenty second of June twenty thirteen. That in quest has 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:49.680 since concluded, and since then both Amy and I have 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:56.760 spoken to Miss Club's family. Amy has begun work on 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.520 a number of articles on Miss Clubs disappearance, and I 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.880 have undertaken to work and assist the family in whatever 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.120 way I can to help find Miss Club and find 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:14.920 answers as to exactly what happened. I'll begin by reading 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:20.440 the conclusion to the inquest, and then I intend this 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:27.159 episode purely to be for information about Miss Club's disappearance 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.680 and as some background, And in future episodes, I'll talk 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.320 to Amy about the inquest itself and what it was 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:39.680 like to attend. We will speak about what the family 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.240 have undertaken over the years to find her, and then 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:48.560 I hope we can begin to bring you progress as 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:53.400 we discover more information and as I investigate and try 0:04:53.440 --> 0:05:00.880 and get answers for the family. So the Corners report 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.200 at the end of the inquest simply reads the identity 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:11.239 of the deceased Monique Irone Club, how she died, undetermined 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.880 place of death. I find that Miss Club probably died 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.640 in Benley or in the Brisbane area, and the date 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.640 of death. Miss Club died on or soon after the 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:29.400 twenty second of June twenty thirteen. So following all these 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:34.160 years of waiting, and one can only imagine the anguish 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:39.440 that Miss Club's family, her siblings and her mother, Sheena, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.719 who I've had the honor of talking to and about 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.440 her life and also about her disappearance in the aftermath, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:52.680 and the anguish that they've all been through over these years. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:57.279 Every single day to then also sit through an inquest 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:03.279 and hear a lot of highly unpleasant details and also 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.800 here from witnesses, here from police, and then to find 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:12.760 that how she died can't be determined, that her place 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.880 of death in Lee or the Brisbane area. We're talking 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.159 about a major capital city. It is a very large area, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.960 and even the date can't be determined. These are not answers. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:28.640 This is not a conclusion in any means. And given 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:34.000 that Miss Club has never been found, clearly the family 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:38.640 can't rest until they have answers, until they at the 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:43.240 very least can lay her to rest, how can they 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:49.719 ever even begin to commence the grieving process. And so 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:54.320 I think at the very beginning of this, we're actually 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:59.279 starting at the conclusion of the inquest findings and just 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:04.920 how open these are, how they really provide no answers whatsoever, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:11.400 and in terms of how Monique may have died, where 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.680 she could possibly be and when this occurred. And now 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:20.480 I want to break down some of the details of 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.600 this in quest. So to give you a very quick background, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:29.600 Monique left Harvey Bay for an unplanned trip with a 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.360 number of friends and they drove together to the greater 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:39.360 Brisbane area. Miss Club had been in a very serious 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:44.560 accident and suffered really horrible injuries in the years prior 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:49.800 to her disappearance, and was struggling with the use of painkillers. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:56.440 As many people will know, the over prescription of the 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.600 drug fentanyl is something that has been analyzed lot in 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.920 the media, particularly in America where it's a huge issue, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:11.560 and somewhat in Australia where it's been raised on where 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.160 it's been raised in media like Four Corners, where even 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:19.600 paramedics have struggled with its misuse. It is highly addictive, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.640 the withdrawals are awful, and this is a drug that 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.560 is often wrongly prescribed, should never have been prescribed in 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:32.960 the first place, and often requires serious impatient support to 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.000 assist someone to come off the drug and to rebuild 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.560 their life afterwards. This is of course no fault of 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.280 the patient. This is a substance that was prescribed to 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.400 them because of serious pain. In Miss Club's case, because 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.959 of a serious accident that had left her with very 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.960 hard to live with injuries that were causing her a 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.240 great deal of pain, and she was simply trying to 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:04.559 navigate life as best as possible. So while in Brisbane, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:10.000 Miss Club attended a medical practice where she was prescribed 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:16.960 five high dose ventanyl patches and fifty diazepam tablets that's valium. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.080 The coroner found that the prescribing of the patches and 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:27.000 the diazepam was inappropriate. It was also noted that the 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.960 medical records at that practice stated that Miss Club should 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:38.520 not be prescribed opioid based or synthetic pain relief of 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:43.760 such an addictive and strong nature, and yet it was 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.720 given to her anyway. It was then dispensed by a 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:54.960 nearby pharmacist where Miss Club obtained only the ventanyl patches, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.040 and then after which she went into a nearby shop. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.560 She was in a shopping center and was asked to leave. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:10.600 It's not possible to ascertain whether this was because of 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.640 her behavior. It could have been racial profiling. We really 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:20.040 can't tell. But a security guard was called. He didn't 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.880 believe that Miss Club was any trouble at all, and 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:31.680 he witnessed her leave the shopping center. She was quite 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.840 in the distance at this point and that she'd walked 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.760 into a park and that's where he last saw her. 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:44.120 And he said that she seemed uninjured and okay, but 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.400 that's where she was last seen. And he was the 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.959 last person to see her. Miss Club then failed to 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.800 make contact with her mother, who she would be in 0:10:54.920 --> 0:11:00.120 regular contact daily contact with via her telephone, and her 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:05.320 mother immediately filed a missing person's report with the police 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.600 in Harvey Bay, where Miss Club was from and where 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:15.000 her mother lived, and then the police investigation began. Immediately, 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.800 the police assumed something that I think we can all 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.920 probably guess and that you've heard many times in this 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:27.240 podcast before. They assumed Miss Club was drunk. She was not, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.319 and the coroner stated that this finding, this assumption by 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.840 the police was inconsistent with the evidence. Well, not only 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.840 is it inconsistent with the evidence, it's another example of 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:45.280 the endless racism of the police around this country, where 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:49.440 anytime an Aboriginal person is in trouble, the police simply 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.280 assume they're drunk, and as you've heard throughout the years 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.800 of this podcast, so often, this is simply not the case, 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:03.040 and in Miss Club's case, it was just not true. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:08.959 So the police investigation then commences a on a wrong footing. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.880 I also believe that based on evidence, you will hear 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.160 shortly that the police had, once again, as they often do, 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.080 assume that she'd gone walk about and that she would 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.520 be found or returned home, which obviously did not happen, 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:30.120 and these were based on pure assumptions and without ascertaining 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.760 the facts at all. In fact, the coroner slam Queensland 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:38.880 Police for its shambolic response to Miss Club's disappearance. There 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.559 was also a great deal of confusion as to which 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:46.520 police officer officer and from what unit was leading the investigation. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:52.120 This resulted in a number of critical delays and incorrected 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.800 tactical decision making in the field, which resulted in huge 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.400 gaps in the investigation and of may, in my opinion, 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.960 have resulted in the fact that Miss Club was not 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:09.320 found in those early days. Some of those mistakes and 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.839 some of the lack of direction include the fact that 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.520 police search and Rescue determined that Miss Club was not 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:21.160 in the park where she was last seen. Police, however, 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:25.160 concluded that Miss Club had died in the park based 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.840 on the wrong assumption that she was intoxicated, perhaps under 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.920 the influence of drugs. This was not consistent with the 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.319 statement of the security guard, who was both reliable at 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.920 the time and reliable at the inquest, and was the 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:43.920 last person to see Miss Club alive. Miss Club was 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.240 an active user of her mobile phone, both in making 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:53.880 calls to friends, family, people she knew, people she was around, 0:13:55.360 --> 0:14:00.520 and yet police did not ascertain all of the available 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.959 call logs. They obtained some but not all in the 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.760 case of some witnesses and some people who may have 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.600 had further information as to where Miss Club might be 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:16.480 people who had been in her company. The police obtained 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.920 call logs, for example incoming calls, but not outgoing calls. 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.960 They could have missed vital and probably did miss vital information. 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:31.880 Another issue was that no triangulation of Miss Club's telephone 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:37.479 was performed. This would have allowed police to potentially locate 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.200 the phone locate if they could not locate the phone, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.120 find the location of where it was last on and used, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:49.360 and possibly even located Miss Club. They did not perform 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.440 this for two reasons. One they didn't believe that it 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.920 meant the threshold, that is, that is, Miss Club's disappearance 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.880 did not meet their threshold of her being in grave 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:06.040 or imminent danger or at risk ridiculous. The other issue 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.800 was cost. Now we understand the cost would have been 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:15.160 about five hundred dollars and Queensland Police decided that was 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.720 too much money to expend for the life of an 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:22.640 Aboriginal woman. The police did also not access all of 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:28.560 the available CCTV in the area. They did review CCTV 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:35.040 at the closest train station, but police can't say which 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:41.200 police viewed this CCTV footage, for how long it was viewed, 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.200 or where the notes are and what happened to those notes, 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:50.440 nor what those notes say. One officer admitted during the 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:55.720 coronial inquest that the CCTV was in the possession of 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:01.960 the QPS, but they couldn't find it, and admitted that 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:06.080 guidelines had not been followed. What we do know from 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:10.320 the CCTV footage that was seen is that miss Club 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:17.920 was last seen on CCTV at Binley Station. This footage 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.840 from the train station could have provided vital information as 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:27.440 to her next movement and possible whereabouts, but the CCTV 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.120 was not viewed for long enough to determine whether she 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.120 got onto a train or not. This is crucial. Had 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.200 she got onto a train, then the police could have 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.440 looked at which train line it was they knew based 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.000 on the station she was at, and reviewed the CCTV 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:50.000 of all potential future stops along that line. Then they 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.760 could determine exactly where she got off, if she was 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:57.280 met by someone, and then review CCTV footage in that 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:04.159 location for further information. Had that CCTV footage revealed that 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.199 Miss Club had not got on the train, A, it 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.800 would have told them she'd remained in that bin Lee area, 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:16.560 and B they could have then reviewed CCTV footage both 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:22.159 public and private, from private businesses, petrol stations, local libraries, 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:27.960 shopping centers, pharmacies and scene. Did Miss Club get into 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.280 a vehicle with someone? Did she meet someone? Could they 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.240 view the license plate of a car she got into, 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.560 none of which we will ever know, A because they 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:42.840 didn't view the CCTV properly and B the CCTV that 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:48.400 was collected was not stored to their own guidelines. There 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:53.680 was also a serious lack of oversight, and this goes 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:59.040 to a slightly complex issue. But the ELDE of this 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:03.439 investigation was taken by Harvey Bay, which is hours away 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:09.480 from Brisbane where Miss Club went missing. Now, say I'm 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.720 from Canberra and I go visit Melbourne and I go 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.320 missing in Melbourne, why on earth would the Canberra Police 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:21.480 be tasked with finding me. It's not their patch, they 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.840 don't They're not there physically, they don't know the ground, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.640 they don't know who to speak to. Once again, I 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.159 absolutely believe this was a case of police assuming that 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.600 Miss Club had gone walk about like they always do 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:41.120 when someone who is Aboriginal goes missing, just as they 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:45.480 did when Colin Walker Craig, one of the beautiful young 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.320 Aboriginal children who was murdered in and around Bauerville in 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:53.720 the nineties and for whom the families have never had justice. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:57.120 These are the same wrong assumptions that police make. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:18:58.560 Now. 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:03.520 There are also further issues assigned as the lead investigator 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.800 was a senior constable. As we've seen with recent high 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:14.199 profile missing persons cases of non Indigenous people, enormous numbers 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.880 of detectives are assigned to the case and huge amounts 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:22.919 of resources are put into these cases, not for Aboriginal people, 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.320 and not for Miss Club, who had a senior constable 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:31.800 assigned to her case. This senior constable's report contained a 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:37.919 huge number of errors. When an oversight report was carried 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.040 out by a detective senior sergeant, they admitted at the 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:47.880 coronial investigation that their review did not involve any reinvestigation 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:53.120 of the matter. They simply relied on the original report 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.600 supplied by the senior Constable, and so that detective senior 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.679 sergeant's report, and remember Miss Club has never been found. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.720 So this is an ongoing case of a woman who 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:10.560 is disappeared and could very well have been murdered, and 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:18.920 yet this detective senior sergeant's report, same mistakes. Now, one 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.640 of the things that was raised throughout the coronial inquest, 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.320 one of the things that's been mentioned in the media 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:29.479 by academics, by alleged experts, that this all has to 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:35.920 do with training, the following of procedures, that training manuals 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:41.520 be updated, That there was confusion about delegation of responsibilities, 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:46.360 about a lack of information sharing between search and rescue 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:51.720 missing persons units and the regular police. But let's be 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.200 honest what it really is. It's not any of those things. 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:59.280 They could have been solved decades ago when these errors 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:03.640 were first point out out. The answer to what happened 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.800 is very simple. The police did not give a shit, 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:11.440 and based on their racism, they assumed wrongly that Miss 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:16.040 Club was intoxicated, They assumed wrongly that she was in 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:20.639 that park, they assumed wrongly that she'd simply gone walk about, 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.440 and they assumed wrongly that she would simply go home 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:28.560 at some point the in between, of which they had 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:34.360 no care. All these mistakes mean that we are left 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:39.119 in the same position the family was when Miss Club's 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:45.160 mother first reported her missing, with no new information as 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.320 to where she might be, what has happened to her, 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:51.960 and who might have been involved in her disappearance or 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:56.479 potential murder. These are all issues we will explore in 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:01.359 the future. There are people who were around Miss Club 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:06.399 at the time who had the motive, the opportunity, and 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:10.240 the potential to murder her. This was never taken serious 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:15.600 seriously by the police. New information about this came to 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:22.639 light somewhat in the coronial inquest, but despite all of this, 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:30.480 no real active investigation continues. As Amy's article points out, 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:36.080 twenty thirteen was not just a year that Miss Club disappeared. 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:41.480 Another Aboriginal woman in Queensland disappeared that year too. She 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:45.120 too was most likely, I would say almost certainly murdered. 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:51.000 She too has never been found. Her family was let 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.360 down by the Queensland Police Department in the same ways. 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:00.320 So we'll be back very soon with a future episode 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:04.080 of Curtin the podcast, where I hope to bring you 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.879 more information where I'll speak to Amy about what it 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.639 was like to attend the inquest, what it was like 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:16.000 to hear this new information come forward, and hear the 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:20.399 realization that this was not simply a missing person's case, 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:24.320 but that Miss Club could very well have been murdered 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:27.879 and most of all in the background. We will be 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:30.840 working to do what we can to assist the family, 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:35.680 to find answers to find Miss Club, and to give 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:38.200 her family the chance to lay her to rest.