The startling evidence of racism Queensland police couldn’t shrug off | Ten years of Guardian Australia

Leaked audio from Brisbane’s watch house outraged Australia. Reporters Eden Gillespie and Ben Smee reflect on the game-changing scoop – and a ‘blue wall of silence’

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Eden Gillespie could never have guessed that a chance meeting in a courtroom would lead to the public release of damning evidence of racism in the Queensland police force.

It was August 2022 and the Queensland state reporter for Guardian Australia was covering the commission of inquiry into Queensland police responses to domestic and family violence – the state equivalent of a royal commission.

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