Speaker of Parliament in denial on eight week long protest
Jennifer Nash | 24.07.2010 23:10 | Education | Repression | Social Struggles | World
John Mickel, Speaker of Queensland Parliament continues to ignore constituents, who have been demonstrating outside his electorate office every week day for the past eight weeks.
Protest outside John Mickel's electorate office
John Mickel, MP for Logan and Speaker of Qld Parliament
Logan City mother, Jennifer Nash is protesting on Mr Mickel’s dogged refusal to table her documented and corroborated judicial abuse and judicial corruption allegations in a human rights court complaint on severe school bullying and education discrimination.
She says her son was consistently denied access to public service on equal terms in his very own country and also denied legal youth advocacy. Despite being a layperson, she was forced to act in court as her son’s unqualified legal youth advocate, where they were not heard, abused and intimidated in hearings lasting over 7 ½ hours.
The Rights of the Child were repeatedly ignored and when they finally received the courtroom audiotapes and transcripts they found they had been severely edited to deny them the evidence of the abuse and to pervert the course of justice.
When the boy and his mother could no longer tolerate the harrowing courtroom hearings and refused to return to court for further abuse, the complaint was dismissed and the grade school student was ordered to pay Education Queensland more than $ 28,000 in legal costs based on the 1851 (Eighteen fifty one) Infants Law Act.
John Mickel has consistently denied them electoral representation. One of the four judges involved in the corruption scandal is the brother of Queensland Governor, Penelope Wensley, who has refused to acknowledge the family.
Ms Nash addressed Parliament on this issue from the public gallery on 23 April 2009 before she was violently ejected by armed police on the orders of John Mickel, the Speaker. Premier Anna Bligh laughed as she spoke from the gallery and the matter went unreported by the media. TV news cameras are banned in Parliament.
Independent Kingaroy MP, Dorothy Pratt recently sponsored an e-petition for an independent investigation into the unlawful editing of their courtroom audio tapes and transcripts, which will be tabled in Parliament on 3 August.
The small magazine style community newspaper Jimboomba Times covered the political protest out of public interest on 16 June. However, mainstream media has declined to give the family any media attention. Their exhausting protest will enter its 9th week tomorrow.
She says her son was consistently denied access to public service on equal terms in his very own country and also denied legal youth advocacy. Despite being a layperson, she was forced to act in court as her son’s unqualified legal youth advocate, where they were not heard, abused and intimidated in hearings lasting over 7 ½ hours.
The Rights of the Child were repeatedly ignored and when they finally received the courtroom audiotapes and transcripts they found they had been severely edited to deny them the evidence of the abuse and to pervert the course of justice.
When the boy and his mother could no longer tolerate the harrowing courtroom hearings and refused to return to court for further abuse, the complaint was dismissed and the grade school student was ordered to pay Education Queensland more than $ 28,000 in legal costs based on the 1851 (Eighteen fifty one) Infants Law Act.
John Mickel has consistently denied them electoral representation. One of the four judges involved in the corruption scandal is the brother of Queensland Governor, Penelope Wensley, who has refused to acknowledge the family.
Ms Nash addressed Parliament on this issue from the public gallery on 23 April 2009 before she was violently ejected by armed police on the orders of John Mickel, the Speaker. Premier Anna Bligh laughed as she spoke from the gallery and the matter went unreported by the media. TV news cameras are banned in Parliament.
Independent Kingaroy MP, Dorothy Pratt recently sponsored an e-petition for an independent investigation into the unlawful editing of their courtroom audio tapes and transcripts, which will be tabled in Parliament on 3 August.
The small magazine style community newspaper Jimboomba Times covered the political protest out of public interest on 16 June. However, mainstream media has declined to give the family any media attention. Their exhausting protest will enter its 9th week tomorrow.
Jennifer Nash