Don’t Forget Indigenous Women When You’re Marching For Justice
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I’m only speaking for myself when I say this, but as a First Nations person and a woman, this has been an especially heavy time. We’ve seen three First Nations deaths in custody in the same week, two of which, only revealed under questioning. One woman and two men. In addition to this, we’ve been hearing about our Australian Government’s lack of care when it comes to the safety and well-being of women, even in their own workplace. When you’ve got white cis straight men on one side telling us that non-male identifying people are nothing, acting like First Nations lives mean nothing, what are we supposed to do? How are we supposed to feel?
WA election: The MPs in line for a promotion in Mark McGowan s cabinet reshuffle
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Roger Cook, Rita Saffioti and Sue Ellery are all in line for senior ministerial positions.
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With the celebrations out of the way at WA Labor headquarters, the jostling for cabinet positions is now well and truly on.
After a few retirements, Premier Mark McGowan has some re-shuffling to do.
Mr McGowan will soon announce who will take over as treasurer and Aboriginal affairs minister following Ben Wyatt s departure, and the Emergency Services portfolio will also need to be filled.
There will also be a new sport and recreation minister and speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
A 36-year-old Anaiwan Dunhutti man, Nathan Reynolds, died in 2018 gasping for air on a prison floor from an asthma attack after guards took an “unreasonably” long time to come to his aid.
The NSW deputy coroner Elizabeth Ryan said the “confused, uncoordinated and unreasonably delayed” response by prison guards and health staff deprived Reynolds of “at least some chance” of survival.
Reynolds’ family, who have waited almost three years for answers as to how and why he died – and, crucially, for somebody to be held responsible – heard the NSW deputy coroner give a brief summary of her findings on Thursday.
“The delay deprived Nathan of at least some chance of surviving his acute asthma attack. These failures were due both to numerous system deficiencies and to individual errors of judgement.”
During the inquest in October last year, the coroner was told that prison officers took about 10 minutes to respond to calls for help. Officer Matthew Fawzy told the court he had been waiting for a colleague to see Reynolds. When asked why this took roughly 10 minutes, he said: “I can’t think of anything.”
When asked why he didn’t run to Reynolds, the prison officer said he had been trained to avoid that. “We were taught never to run unless it’s an officer actually getting assaulted,” Fawzy said.
The family of Nathan Reynolds, who died in custody after suffering a severe asthma attack, say they will continue to pursue justice.
After the coroner handed down her findings on Thursday morning, Makayla and Taleah Reynolds - Nathan s sisters - told NITV News the inquest into their brother s death may be over, but their fight is not. Our fight is not done, Taleah Reynolds said. This isn t the end for us at all. There s a lot more work to do around deaths in custody. We ll continue to fight after this.
The family of Nathan Reynolds.
Source: AAP Losing him has left a huge hole in the lives of our family, Taleah said.