Sydney news: Death of woman who had COVID-19 vaccine still under investigation
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Woman dies after COVID-19 jab
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she is looking forward to her second dose of the vaccine.
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she is yet to find out whether the death of a 48-year-old woman in NSW is linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Federal health authorities are investigating the death of the woman who developed blood clots after receiving the jab.
The ABC has been told preliminary tests did not find a conclusive link to the vaccination.
Black, Indigenous people overrepresented in Toronto transit enforcement incidents, report finds
Black and Indigenous people have been grossly overrepresented in Toronto transit enforcement incidents for much of the last decade, a new report finds and when it comes to why, racial bias cannot be ruled out.
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Black and Indigenous riders were more likely than white riders to be formally charged or cautioned by TTC fare inspectors and special constables in enforcement incidents, whether they be on transit routes, locations or stations, the review found.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Black and Indigenous people have been grossly overrepresented in Toronto transit enforcement incidents for much of the last decade, a new report finds and when it comes to why, racial bias cannot be ruled out.
Thirty years on, our people still die in custody. This is why
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Thirty years on, our people still die in custody. This is why
Warning: This article contains names and distressing details pertaining to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody.
By Karly Warner
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Thirty years ago on Thursday, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down 339 recommendations to stop our brothers, sisters, parents and children losing their lives in the care of the state.
Since then, very few of those recommendations have been meaningfully implemented. Meanwhile, more than 470 more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died gasping for breath on cold prison floors, slumped over in watch-houses, roasting in the back of paddy-wagons, impaled upon fences or drowned in rivers while running from police who they had good reason to fear. These wo
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this story contains images of people who have died.
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.
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As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, there appears to be little cause for celebration.
Since its final report was tabled in 1991, there have been more than 450 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died in custody, and the Indigenous incarceration rate has also doubled from 14 per cent to about 28 per cent.
Guest: Dennis Eggington, a Nyoongar man, an adjunct professor at Curtin University and the Aboriginal Legal Service WA CEO
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