 Police actions were later found to breach the "Racial Discrimination Act 1975", with the raids being "unnecessary, disproportionate" and police having "acted in these ways because they were dealing with an Aboriginal community".The raids resulted in a record million class action settlement and a formal apology to be made by the State Government.Later the same day approximately 80 additional police from Townsville and Cairns were flown to Palm Island to restore order.