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The Wee Waa run was taken up by squatter George Hobler in 1837 and the settlement developed. It became an administrative centre in the late 1840s. A police station and court of petty sessions were established in 1847 and a post office opened two years later.
Death while in police custody Edward James Murray (6 December 1959 – 12 June 1981) was an Australian rugby league player who was controversially found dead in his police cell in the New South Wales town of Wee Waa within an hour of having been detained for being drunk and disorderly [ 1 ] under the 1979 Intoxicated Persons Act [ 2 ] (a law ...
Among the 99 cases investigated by the Commission were the deaths of rugby player Eddie Murray in 1981 at the Wee Waa police station, [10] and the death of John Pat, a 16-year-old Aboriginal boy, at Roebourne, Western Australia in 1983. Commissioner Johnston was critical of the lack of any disciplinary charges against the five officers ...
She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2003 for her services with the police during Operation Alliance. [4] Wilson-Wilde was also involved in the controversial mass-DNA screening of men in the New South Wales town of Wee Waa in 2000, in an attempt to track down a man who had bashed and raped an elderly woman. [2] [5] [6]
Hawaii is unique in that it is the only state within the U.S. that does not have a state police, state patrol, or highway patrol. [2] However, the Sheriff Division of the Hawaii Department of Law Enforcement (DLE) serves as the de facto state police (and capitol police) agency of Hawaii. Conversely, the DLE Sheriff Division is the only sheriff ...
Dennis Geoffrey Lowder – For service to veterans, and to the community of Wee Waa. David Peter Luck – For service to people with a disability. The late Roger Irwin Lynch – For service to the community of the Great Lakes region. Alison Mary Macgregor – For service to music, and to horticulture.
On July 26, 1991, Pee-wee Herman aka Paul Reubens was arrested for indecent exposure in Sarasota, Fla. (Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection, Getty Images) (Everett Collection, Getty Images)
The system of reserves and stations was ended by the Aborigines Act 1969. [17] The Aboriginal Lands Trust was established by the Aborigines (Amendment) Act 1973 . [ 18 ] The Trust assumed the corporate ownership of all Aboriginal reserves throughout New South Wales on behalf of, and for the benefit of Aboriginal people. [ 19 ]