Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate:

(a)

notes the terrible story of Mr Mulrunji Doomadgee, which extends beyond his death in custody in 2004, to encompass the following:

(i)

Mr Doomadgee’s son Eric has since committed suicide,

(ii)

Mr Patrick Bramwell, a 24-year old Aboriginal man, who was in the Palm Island police lock-up as Mr Doomadgee died, has since hanged himself, and

(iii)

Mr Doomadgee’s mother, too ill to attend his funeral, has since died; and

(b)

expresses its condolences to the Doomadgee family and the Palm Island community for the suffering and despair which these tragic events have entailed.

Question agreed to.