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‘Bad things happened there’: how a notorious Pilbara pub became a symbol of hope

When the old Victoria Hotel in Roebourne was transformed into the Ganalili Centre celebrating Yindjibarndi culture, a new dawn was brought to a dark historyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFor a two-storey, dust-covered building in the centre of a remote town, the old Victoria Hotel in Roebourne (Ieramagadu) has played an outsized role in Australian history.It was here, in 1983, that a group of drunk, off-duty police officers accosted an Aboriginal man at the bottle shop (“We’ll get you, you black cunt,” one said, according to witness testimony), starting a brawl on the street. Sixteen-year-old Yindjibarndi boy John Pat joined the fray and was seen being kicked in the head and face by police and dragged into a van. An hour later, he was dead. Continue reading...

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