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Black, white or brindle Cairns community seems to come to the one conclusion - what happened to the folks at Cedar Bay was wrong.
Nimbin Hemp Embassy Archive: "On the morning of 29 August 1976, the inhabitants of the hippy colony at Cedar Bay in far North Queensland were awoken by the WHAP-WHAP-WHAP of a helicopter circling. As it dropped off a few policemen at the beach, they watched. It left, only to return again, and again, and again." Nimbin Hemp Embassy Archive
"In 1976 twelve people were arrested at a ‘hippie’ commune at Cedar Bay The hippies claimed police burned their personal property and dwellings. A television crew produced footage of burned-out huts. - Joh Bjelke-Petersen told the press that the allegations made by the Cedar Bay hippies were part of a campaign to legalise marijuana and denigrate the police. He stated that some of the evidence was manufactured after the police had left the scene. It turned out that the police had, in fact, torched the homes. Charges were laid against three policemen but the prosecutions were unsuccessful."
It's interesting to fill out the context and learn a little more about 'the deep north' Southern Tropics Tropics of Capricorn The World Wide Journey of the Rising Sun - an in depth look at the lands downunder.
"My view is that unless the black population is speedily absorbed into the white, the process will soon be reversed, and in 50 years, or a little later, the white population of the Northern Territory will be absorbed into the black" -Cecil Cook
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