> There are many many people in the territory that I know who could have
> put up a far better case than Gunner and Cubillo, in the Western legal
> sense. I find it difficult to understand why this particular duo were
> picked in particular.
You're probably right, Ian, and I don't know anything about the
selection process, but it was never going to be easy to find people
willing to put themselves through such a high-profile court case.
Especially older people, perhaps, who have already been through
quite enough. If nothing else, Gunner and Cubillo have shown
enormous courage and character in allowing their personal stories
to be so brutally rummaged through by all parties concerned
(including us?).
In any event, the prevailing law of this land was never going to be
adequate to find any truth or justice in this case, or any similar
case. Questioning the individual judge, or the plaintiffs, or the
lawyers, or the millions spent by the Government to defend its
indefensible policies, is to miss the point that it is the process
itself that is fatally flawed. (And these cases will keep coming --
as I suppose they should, for as long as the Government continues
to deny its responsibility -- and the government will spend millions
on them, all of which could have been put to better use had
Australia, from the beginning, established some sort of reparations
tribunal.)
Sandy
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