Aboriginal campaigner Bernard Singer’s tree fight fine
Andrew Dowdell, Court Reporter: The Advertiser | August 01, 2008
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24112298-2682,00.html
APY Lands chairman Bernard Singer has been convicted and fined over an assault at a Far North community earlier this year.
Singer, 41, today admitted to punching another man during an argument over the cutting down of a “sacred tree” on the lands in May.
The alcohol prohibition campaigner had denied the assault but pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and misuse of a motor vehicle midway through his trial in Coober Pedy Magistrates Court.
The court previously heard that Singer had a …
