Deaths Inside News Today

Artist Archie Moore will draw from his personal history – and databases including Guardian Australia’s Deaths Inside – to create a ‘site for quiet reflection’

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by <strong>Kris Swales</strong>

The question was, ‘How many people have died since the 1991 royal commission?’ Nobody knew – so a Guardian Australia team spent eight months trawling through inquests and media reports, striving to highlight human stories behind shocking statistics

Income earners in top 20% set to scoop $227.6bn of total $313.1bn benefit; president to focus on domestic political deadlock due to US debt

The Australian Institute of Criminology’s annual report shows 106 people died in custody between July 2021-22, with 16 of those people of Indigenous descent

Aboriginal justice expert says governments continue to ‘stall on urgent action’ to prevent deaths

An Aboriginal woman has died in custody in a Melbourne hospital after she was transferred from the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

In June 2020, Australians marched for black lives matter. More than a year on, the silence is deafening from non-Indigenous Australias.

International lawyer Geoffrey Robertson to argue Australia failed to protect Dungay’s right to life and denied family justice for his 2015 death in Long Bay jail

At least 475 Aboriginal people have died in custody since the 1991 royal commission and reporting to government has lagged years behind<br>