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There’s a link between the over-policing of Indigenous kids and our people dying in custody TameekaTigheforIndigenousX Our children’s innocence is stolen, and the system presents them with a life in and out of prison ‘We are the most incarcerated people on earth but we are not born to die in custody.’ Photograph: David Gray/Getty Images ‘We are the most incarcerated people on earth but we are not born to die in custody.’ Photograph: David Gray/Getty Images Fri 30 Apr 2021 01.20 EDT First published on Fri 30 Apr 2021 00.40 EDT If Australia is serious about ending ...

Jo Faith, Newtown Derek Chauvin, the American cop who continued sitting on the neck of George Floyd as he endured his death cycle mutterering for nearly 10 minutes, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’ has been convicted of two counts of murder, and one of manslaughter. His crime? He was a Black man in America. In Australia, the campaign for justice for young David Dungay continues. Davids crime? He was a Black man who was a diabetic and refused to give the prison guards the packet of biscuits he was eating. This crime ‘justified’ the need for Corrective Services to call in the...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody are often given as statistics. But behind those numbers are real people and an indescribable impact on the families and communities who loved them. They are the strongest advocates for those who have died in custody, and in reform of the system. The 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report — whose 30th anniversary was observed on April 15 — makes recommendations that address the necessity of self-determination for Aboriginal families and communities. However, acts of self-determination, such as calls for commun...

News Spurred on by One Nation’s Mark Latham and the Sydney tabloid media, the NSW Police minister has accused a popular north shore school of condoning ‘anti-police propaganda’. By Osman Faruqi. NSW Minister for Police David Elliott. Credit: AAP / Joel Carrett On Wednesday morning, as Australians were waking to news of the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin – the police officer whose murder of George Floyd last year sparked a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement – New South Wales Police Minister David Elliott was in the middle of his own media blitz about BLM. Elliot...

Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in solidarity with us against the issue of state sanctioned brutality. Systemic change is long overdue. At least 441 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the Royal Commission handed down its finding in 1991. These aren’t just numbers to us: these are our Elders, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and children. No police officer or authority has ever been held criminally responsible. The legal system is so entrenched with systemic racism that Aboriginal people are the most incarcerated people in the world. Yet w...