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On 25 May last year, black man George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in the United States, sending shockwaves across the world and sparking generational protests against racism and police brutality. One year on, the aftershocks are still being felt.
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 Australiaâs Deaths Inside project found that, nationally, more than half (54%) of all Aboriginal people who died in custody between 20...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned 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, i...
Where and when to find a Stop Black Deaths in Custody rally across Australia Calla Wahlquist © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Richard Milnes/REX/Shutterstock The families of Aboriginal people who have died in custody are holding a national day of action on Saturday to mark 30 years since the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody handed down its final report. More than 200 of those cases are listed in the Deaths Inside database, which provides information about individual deaths in custody from 2008 to now. The royal commission made 339 recommendations but...