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International lawyer Geoffrey Robertson to argue Australia failed to protect Dungay’s right to life and denied family justice for his 2015 death in Long Bay jail
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 2008 and 2021 were on remand.
The NSW committee recommended the urgent removal of hanging points in prison cells and urged the government to commit to a deadline for doing so. It cited the case of Tane Chatfield, who died in hospital two days after he was found hanging in his cell at the Tamworth correctional centre in September 2017.