This little ditty is at the heart of an innovative Aboriginal Men’s Centre.

The Goori Men’s Recovery Centre, in Cleveland, has been awarded the ANTaR Qld 3rd Annual Close the Gap Award for their well-structured and culturally appropriate approach to helping men recover from drug and alcohol addiction problems.

ANTaR Queensland calls on Premier Bligh to establish a royal commission into circumstances surrounding Mulrunji Doomadgee’s sudden death in police custody in 2004.

ANTaR Qld President, Ms Monique Bond, said that the royal commission must also examine the behaviour of police in the two days after Mr Doomadgee’s death was discovered.

The revised Queensland Government offer to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stolen wages claimants announced last week falls far short of what is needed to resolve the issue, according to Indigenous rights organisation, ANTaR.