Published May 6, 2021
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains the names of people who have died.
The family of a First Nations man who died in custody in 2016 have staged a rally in Adelaide to demand answers and to call for the immediate ban of controversial spit hoods.
Wayne Fella Morrison is just one of the more than 440 Indigenous people who have died in Australia’s prison system in the last three decades.
Indigenous people are locked up at a horrifying rate, and the trauma that causes to Indigenous communities is immeasurable.
In 1991, the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody outlined 339 recommendations to try and stop Indigenous people dying behind bars.
But despite decades of outrage, before and after that Royal Commission, little has been done to improve the situation.
In fact, in many cases, the picture today is looking worse than ever before.
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Brisbane (CNN)Rebecca Maher didn t get to hold her youngest child.
Australian child protection services took him away as soon as he was born, according to Tracey Hanshaw, from Indigenous rights advocacy group Justice Aunties.
He was the third child Maher lost to officials, who intervened as she fought a drug addiction that started in her teens and ended with her death in a police cell at the age of 36. Although Rebecca s children were not living with her at the time of her death, it is clear to me that she was always a part of their lives and loved them very much, said the coroner s report.