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He had no criminal convictions and was being held on remand while waiting to appear in the Elizabeth magistrates court over video link. It had been expected that the coroner would hear evidence from seven prison guards who were with Morrison in the back of a prison transport van. No video footage exists of the two minute and five-second trip. Lawyers for the officers have already flagged that their clients will claim “penalty privilege” during each of their appearances to avoid talking about the trip. Penalty privilege allows those appearing before the South Australian coroner to refuse t...

Published May 6, 2021 To sign up for our daily newsletter filled with the latest news, goss and other stuff you should care about, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or, bookmark the PEDESTRIAN.TV homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains the names of people who have died.  The family of a First Nations man who died in custody in 2016 have staged a rally in Adelaide to demand answers and to call for the immediate ban of controversial spit hoods.

A corrections officer has told a coronial inquest he wasn't properly trained to conduct admissions interviews.

   Wayne Fella Morrison is just one of the more than 440 Indigenous people who have died in Australia’s prison system in the last three decades.   Indigenous people are locked up at a horrifying rate, and the trauma that causes to Indigenous communities is immeasurable.  In 1991, the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody outlined 339 recommendations to try and stop Indigenous people dying behind bars.   But despite decades of outrage, before and after that Royal Commission, little has been done to improve the situation.   In fact, in many cases, t...

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...