Goondiwindi News
Extradition Bid After Town Riot
Friday January 30, 1987
BRISBANE: Queensland Police have started extradition proceedings against an unspecified number of Aborigines from northern NSW following a riot in the border town of Goondiwindi nearly three weeks ago. On the afternoon of January 10, a Saturday, more than 100 Aborigines from Mooree and TooLibs Point Finger At Alp Over Race Riot
Thursday January 15, 1987
CANBERRA: The Opposition's spokesman on Aboriginal affairs, Mr Connolly, has blamed Labor policies for clashes between whites and Aborigines such as that at Goondiwindi last week. Mr Connolly said many of the Labor Government's policies dedicated significant funds to the construction of sImprison Aboriginal Rioters, Says Minister
Wednesday January 14, 1987
BRISBANE: NSW Aborigines who "terrorised" the border town of Goondiwindi at the weekend should be jailed "to set an example", a Queensland Cabinet minister said yesterday. The Minister for Industry and Technology, Mr Peter McKechnie, said after visiting Goondiwindi thatTeachers Want End To Goondiwindi Bussing
Wednesday January 14, 1987
In the wake of bitter brawling in the town last week, the NSW Teachers'Federation yesterday renewed a call for high school places in NSW for NSW Aboriginal children who now travel to Goondiwindi, in Queensland. The union has called on the State Government to provide facilities in NSW for 66 ABlacks Say They Defended Their Dignity
Monday January 12, 1987
BRISBANE: An Aboriginal leader at the Toomelah Mission admitted last night that violence in Goondiwindi, 20 kilometres away across the Queensland border, on Saturday had probably achieved very little. "It won't stop racial prejudice. We know that. "But we can't just sit by Goondiwindi Tense After Race Riot
Monday January 12, 1987
Racial tensions continued to simmer in Goondiwindi yesterday as locals demanded more police protection from what they called "marauding gangs of blacks". Ten people were seriously injured, and another seven received cuts and bruises, in one of the worst outbreaks of racial violen
