Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta refused to attend court on charges of trespassing over an anti-forestry protest
A Hobart magistrate has issued an arrest warrant for Indigenous activist Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta, who refused to attend court on charges stemming from a protest because he does not consider himself an Australian citizen.A Hobart magistrate has issued an arrest warrant for Indigenous activist Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta, who refused to attend court on charges stemming from a protest because he does not consider himself an Australian citizen.
His matter was listed in the Hobart magistrates court on Monday but he chose to not appear, prompting magistrate Glenn Hay to issue an arrest warrant for the 81-year-old. “They’ll either catch up with me before I get much else done ... or they don’t,” Everett-puralia meenamatta said.“There’s no use standing up and arguing with a colonial government and expecting they’re going to listen the first time you jump up and down about it.Veteran environmentalist Bob Brown, whose organisation arranged the March protest, attended court and described the situation as a legal test case.
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