Family were for years denied justice by a legal system that viewed Aboriginal women as disposable and their deaths not worthy of grief
On a rainy day in the central Queensland town of Rockhampton, my father and I went looking for an unmarked grave. We found the details in the burial index and walked, slowly, until we finally found her.
There was nothing to suggest she was buried here – no flowers or memorabilia, no words to say she had died, or that she had lived. There was only freshly mown grass. On her grave, we placed artificial purple flowers in a tin vase with lavender.
We stood silently in tribute to her, on Darumbal country, so far away from her home, as the rain fell on our heads. My dad stared at that spot of earth and said “I feel like this is the second time I’m meeting her”.
Her name was Queenie Hart.
source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/03/forty-years-in-an-unmarked-grave-family-of-murdered-woman-queenie-hart-fight-to-bring-her-home
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