On May 30, Paul Toohey, a journalist from the Australian newspaper, was convicted by the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory of trespassing on Aboriginal land. After being denied a permit to attend a funeral at Wadeye, Toohey went anyway. A lower court did not convict Toohey, despite finding him guilty. Toohey was investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the deceased man, and the court agreed with his claim to freedom of the press. The appeals court and the Supreme Court, however, both convicted Toohey, citing indigenous property rights and the permit system.
