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Advocates concerned after Daniel Andrews suggests looking at offence types rather than scrapping controversial 2018 changes
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Advocates concerned after Daniel Andrews suggests looking at offence types rather than scrapping controversial 2018 changes
The inquest outlined in horrifying detail the chain of neglectful and cruel events that led to the death in custody of 37-year-old Aboriginal woman Veronica Nelson.
Nearly a year before a coroner blasted Victoria’s bail laws, a parliamentary report recommended sweeping changes, but the Andrews government never responded.
More than three years since she died, alone on the concrete floor of a cell, Veronica Nelson's death was fo...
Coroner Simon McGregor, who conducted the inquest into the death in prison of Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Veronica Nelson, said Victoria’s Bail Act needs to be “urgently” amended. Chris Slee reports.