Sue Neill-Fraser and a Petition of Mercy for MARTIN BRYANT

Last Australia day (January 26, 2017), I went to Launceston to host a poetry reading in the park. Hardly anyone showed up, so I was able to talk to folks about the Sue Neill-Fraser case. One person said to me in a whisper “The police did it, and it concerns drugs.” I had no ability to follow up on that, and do not know the whisperer’s name. Today I looked up the Neill-Fraser case and was surprised to see that the name of Tassie’s current attorney-general is Matthew Groom (son of Ray Groom). You may recall that Ray Groom stepped down as premier (inexplicably) just before the Port Arthur massacre, and accepted several portfolios, including attorney general.