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And do you know uh Robin Johnson, or Rob Johnson
Mister Flynn, that you are the person that you headbutted the defendant first
of your head but
I object to retaliation that word being used Your Worship it's conclusive
Retaliation bears no resemblance to self defence
you than came back towards the defendant
No, no not at all
Had you spoken to uh Scott Tindel on this evening
I don't make a habit of talking to any of those guys
No you don't like them, do you
I said I don't make a habit of talking to them
How is that relevant Your Worship
in relation to this matter
So you don't talk to them at all
Did you know them
I know Scott yes
You said that Mister Robinson allegedly nudged past you
Well I put it to you at no time did he do that
Yes he did
given to the court
I told him to watch out
with his open hands
She was on my right hand side
She was on your right hand side
Michael was there, so I couldn't go between the two of them
So you couldn't have got in between the two of them
That's what he said
Well, were you facing the stage
Yeah, we both were
Where do you say Mister Robinson came from
and that was that
pushed you on the left hand side
Who was beside you on the left hand side
I have no idea
pushed through them, I don't know
Your statement to the police on the ninth of June of this year did you
That's right yes
And that's some three months after the incident
Mister Kelly, prior to making your statement
prior to Paul making the statement
Do you know
Yeah, he made his statement after me that night, yeah
But when you went back to the police station and made your official statement
That was typed out by the constable
Had you discussed the matter with Paul Kelly prior to that
see if he would give his statement
You asked him to go and give a statement, did you
Paul, if if I saw Paul to ask him to come down to the station to give his statement
Oh, and you asked Paul to do that, did you
the constable spoke to him before I did
Is that the case
And where was he taken from there
three meters a across on the left hand side
Across on the left hand side
back and over
and your brother at that time
Holding him over there
Mister Lane and Mister
I had no idea that they were next to me
I hadn't gone there with them
you say as soon as he brushed past you, Mister Lane and your brother then grabbed him
had words to say and then pushed me and it looked like he was going to shape to start hitting me they grabbed him
and what happened when he pushed you
two steps yeah
Do you perceive any fundamental change in outlook among farmers
they have to acknowledge the damage that it's doing to their lives and to their families
And the business of acknowledgement, what does that produce in people
having come to terms with that
you know, thing that I'm going to have cope with
And Bryan when are you going to leave
eighteenth I think it is
out of the ranch now
your own views and and watching Bryan
uhm to be able to sit there and talk things out
How much of that have you done
A lot, a lot, namely at night, uh, you know, instead of sleeping we talk
You're lucky really I suppose there are a lot of couples to whom that would be tough
there would be that uhm Bryan and I uhm was, you know, we we're very close and uh we've been able to uh see it through this far and we'll see it through
Uh uh like you are you just going to walk or are you going to be able to sell them or what
So what you you you going to shoot them, are you
and, you know, the rest of them will just have to be shot, yeah
well they're just not coping with it anymore
the toll it takes of them is terrible
within, you know, six months, I think it's uhm some of those big concerns uh uh are going to uh probably come to the crunch the same as us small smaller fellows
, is going to change really shortly, I think
and there's just no market there
at that time
then uh we started looking forward instead of looking backwards and that was the that was the big decision day
And are you seeing that in your work in Queensland, or not yet
There's uh there is uh not a lot that can be done
in effect become fatalistic earlier than others
Does Your Worship have a copy of that letter
from the police service
the one I'm after is the eleventh of November
I I don't think Your Worship would have any difficulty accepting that it was stopped at the intersection of Horne Road and Mournedral Terrace
you maintained that speed for a distance of two hundred metres
He he's charged with ah exceeding the speed limit and it's sixty ks in a ah
I'm sorry Your Worship I wasn't aware that any of those
I could accept the fact that eith it was loaded or it wasn't
Can you tell us how it felt to walk out of the dock on Thursday knowing that for the first time in thirteen and a half years the Hilton bombing's no longer hanging round your neck