Intervention Ahead

According to this article in the Courier Mail - Premier Anna Bligh is toying with the idea of recalling police on detachment in airports and overseas ahead of a state-led intervention to Cape York communities.

Aboriginal mayors from the 17 indigenous communities are expected to have a chin-wag with the top-dog politico next month to talk about the introduction of proposed welfare reform on the Cape.

Child sex, violence, drugs, pornography, petrol sniffing and alcohol abuse are rife in some of the more dysfunctional townships.

The Premier wrote to local member for Cook, Jason O'Brien, and ruled out the army or federal police as domestic security in the intervention.

Even so, Bligh has suggested a recall of the 140 Queensland police positions seconded to AFP duties at the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Cairns airports as well as those serving in Timor, the Solomons, and the Northern Territory.

I've got nothing funny to add to this post, especially when you take into account this info on the Sydney Morning Herald site:

Queensland police confirmed they were investigating claims made last month by a six-year-old boy in the Aboriginal community of Kowanyama that he had been the victim of repeated sexual abuse by his nine-year-old cousin and other older boys.

Sure, it's a bloody joke this kind of behaviour - whether it's from white or black communities - but it sure ain't a funny one.