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Pat Dodson - thirty years since Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

Roseanne Pat never knew her cousin, but his death in a stone cell in Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region continues to have a huge impact on her life. “It’s always inside of you, its something that scars you for life, its always inside of you like a scar,” she told The Point. “It’s something we’re not going to forget about.” John Pat’s death in 1983, in Ieramadagu or Roebourne, thousands of kilometres from the corridors of power in Canberra, caused a national outcry. The ...

What was the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody? We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement This week marks 30 years since findings were handed down in the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Around the country, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest a lack of change over those three decades. In that time, at least another 455 Indigenous people have died in custody...

Thirty years on from the royal commission, let’s set the record straight on deaths in custody We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Anthony Dillon Save Normal text size Advertisement This month marks the 30th anniversary of the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. This, combined with the fact that there were four Aboriginal deaths in custody last March and another one more recently, makes it timely to ...

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson continues push for constitutional recognition and Voice to Parliament Posted 4 updated 4 MarMarch 2021 at 10:04am Noel Pearson says as long as the nations Indigenous peoples remain unrecognised, Australia is an "absurdity". ( Share Print text only Cancel Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says Australia is incomplete without constitutional recognition of First Nations people, as leaders renew calls for a referendum on a Voice to Parliament. Key points: Noel Pearson i...

A former royal commissioner is calling on Peter Dutton to convene a meeting of state and territory police ministers to act immediately to prevent Indigenous deaths in custody, following three people dying in jail in the past fortnight.

Download 7.38 MB As Victoria forges ahead with Australias first formal truth-telling process, the father of reconciliation, Labor senator Patrick Dodson, says the process is in the slow lane federally. Yesterday, the Senate voted down his motion for a Joint Select Committee to inquire into the truth telling and treaty making elements of Makarrata as called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. He says that calls for a truth telling commission are not going to go away, and Australia, as a ...

As Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo confronts the greatest political crisis of his career, amid multiple accusations of sexual harassment and growing demands for his resignation, New Yorkers are growing more curious about Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who would replace him if he were no longer in office. Mr. Cuomo has strenuously denied that he behaved inappropriately and has repeatedly ignored calls to step down, but he is losing the support of more...

The Northern Territorys heritage protection laws to come under scrutiny as the work of the Juukan Inquiry continues.  The hearings will take place by teleconference on Tuesday and will be looking at the Top Ends cultural protection laws, after concerns were raised by Traditional Owners about the expansion of the Gencore McArthur River mine.  The Central Land Council (CLC), the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, and the International Council for Monuments and Sites will be among the grou...

WA can’t go back to ‘business as usual’ on Aboriginal heritage: Dodson We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Changes to Western Australia’s Aboriginal heritage laws need to proceed as soon as possible after next month’s state election, politicians and activists say, after the disruption of another heritage site in the Pilbara raised concerns. WAtoday revealed on Tuesday that a registe...