ABC takes legal action to overturn Mulrunji suppression order
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The ABC is taking action in Queensland's Supreme Court in a bid to overturn a three-year-old court order suppressing controversial evidence in the case of an Aboriginal death in custody on Palm Island.
The non-publication order was made in 2005 by Deputy State Coroner Christine Clements.
It placed a ban on publishing most of the evidence heard at a directions hearing into the death of a man known as Mulrunji.
She ordered the media not to report a large body of evidence and also banned publication of the reasons for her order.
Queensland Police Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley stood trial for the death of Mulrunji on Palm Island in November 2004, but was acquitted of manslaughter last year.
A directions hearing in relation to the ABC's application will heard on September 5.
The ABC went to court because a book it published on the case was unable to include the evidence.
