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There’s a link between the over-policing of Indigenous kids and our people dying in custody TameekaTigheforIndigenousX Our children’s innocence is stolen, and the system presents them with a life in and out of prison ‘We are the most incarcerated people on earth but we are not born to die in custody.’ Photograph: David Gray/Getty Images ‘We are the most incarcerated people on earth but we are not born to die in custody.’ Photograph: David Gray/Getty Images Fri 30 A...

Jo Faith, Newtown Derek Chauvin, the American cop who continued sitting on the neck of George Floyd as he endured his death cycle mutterering for nearly 10 minutes, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’ has been convicted of two counts of murder, and one of manslaughter. His crime? He was a Black man in America. In Australia, the campaign for justice for young David Dungay continues. Davids crime? He was a Black man who was a diabetic and refused to give the prison guards the packet of...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody are often given as statistics. But behind those numbers are real people and an indescribable impact on the families and communities who loved them. They are the strongest advocates for those who have died in custody, and in reform of the system. The 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report — whose 30th anniversary was observed on April 15 — makes recommendations that address the necessity of self-determination for...

News Spurred on by One Nation’s Mark Latham and the Sydney tabloid media, the NSW Police minister has accused a popular north shore school of condoning ‘anti-police propaganda’. By Osman Faruqi. NSW Minister for Police David Elliott. Credit: AAP / Joel Carrett On Wednesday morning, as Australians were waking to news of the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin – the police officer whose murder of George Floyd last year sparked a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement – New ...

Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in solidarity with us against the issue of state sanctioned brutality. Systemic change is long overdue. At least 441 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the Royal Commission handed down its finding in 1991. These aren’t just numbers to us: these are our Elders, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and children. No police officer or authority has ever been held criminally responsible. The legal system is so entrenc...

Anniversary highlights Aboriginal deaths in custody crisis Issued on: 15/04/2021 - 05:10 Despite calls for sweeping reforms in 1991, a spate of recent fatalities and soaring rates of Aboriginal incarceration have highlighted failures to act PATRICK HAMILTON AFP/File 4 min Brisbane (Australia) (AFP) Thirty years after sweeping reforms were recommended to end the injustice of Indigenous deaths in Australian custody, a spate of recent fatalities and soa...

The committee also determined that the Bail Act should be reformed to include an express consideration of Aboriginality as a provision to ensure people were not left on remand. Aboriginal defendants are 20.4% more likely to be refused bail by police than non-Aboriginal defendants in similar cases, according to a recent NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (Bocsar) study of more than 500,000 bail decisions made in NSW between 2015 and 2019. Guardian Australia’s Deaths Inside project ...

Tameeka Tighe is the sister of the late Tane Chatfield, who died in 2017. Her family is one of 15 families petitioning the Prime Minister for a meeting to discuss a set of demands over indigenous deaths in custody. Guest:

Print text only Cancel Indigenous leaders and families have called for change across the nations justice system following the handing down of a NSW parliamentary report into First Nations deaths in custody.  Key points: Committee Chair Adam Searle wants the report to drive change within the justice system The NSW Government will consider the report and recommendations An Upper House Select Committee today tabled its findings and 39 recommendations which aim to reduce the over-representation o...

Families, politicians say not enough has changed 30 years on from Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Nioka Chatfield says authorities were obligated to keep her son safe. ( Share Print text only Key points: Labor senator Pat Dodson has called for national leadership to prevent more deaths The Indigenous prison population has doubled in the past 30 years But this year on April 1, Nioka and Colin Chatfield bundled their family into their white mini-van, picked up a cake from the ...