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Deaths in custody

July 2024

  • Four people against a wall with posters wearing t-shirts showing a loved one's face

    Former WA justice boss concedes children subject to ‘institutional abuse’ under his watch, Cleveland Dodds inquest hears

    A tearful Adam Tomison told the court ‘I wanted to do a good job’ but agreed it was cruel and inhumane that children had been locked up for up to 23 hours a day
  • Dwayne Johnstone

    Aboriginal man shot dead by guard while running in shackles ‘was no threat’, mother tells inquest

    Wiradjuri man Dwayne Johnstone was shot dead outside Lismore hospital in 2019 as he ran in leg shackles from a prison van
  • Aunty Donnas Kerr.

    ‘I’m dying’: Indigenous man Joshua Kerr lay unconscious while Victorian prison guards waited for police, inquest finds

    Coroner says death at Port Phillip prison was preventable and the result of a series of missed opportunities

May 2024

  • Signs put up by supporters of Ms Dhu

    WA police formally apologise to family of Aboriginal woman who died in custody in 2014

    Ms Dhu died two days after being locked up at police station after arrest for unpaid fines of $3,622

March 2024

  • Senator Lidia Thorpe

    Crossbenchers back Lidia Thorpe’s call for federal government to act on deaths in custody reforms

  • Constable Zach Rolfe leaving the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker at the Alice Springs Local Court

    Full Story
    In the witness box: former police officer Zachary Rolfe testifies – Full Story podcast

February 2024

  • Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy reacts during debate in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra

    Malarndirri McCarthy hits back at Lidia Thorpe for ‘native police’ attack in Senate

  • The upper house erupted over how much time senators were being given to speak, prompting the chamber to adjourn early

    1:48

    Lidia Thorpe told to 'sit down' as Senate adjourned after confusion over speaking schedule – video

  • Lidia Thorpe speaks in the Senate chamber

    Lidia Thorpe says she was trying to speak about cousin’s death in custody during Senate chaos

  • Zachary Rolfe leaving the Northern Territory inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker in 2022.

    Kumanjayi Walker inquest: NT police sergeant has ‘no excuse’ for using racist term in text to Zachary Rolfe

  • Jai Kalani Wright: officer charged over death of Aboriginal teen killed in collision with police car

  • Out in the cold
    Pasquale Giorgio asked for help while sleeping rough in Surfers Paradise. The next day he died in a police van

  • Indigenous man called out ‘I’m dying’ with no response from prison staff in hours before death, Victorian inquest hears

  • Out in the cold
    Homeless Australians are dying at age 44 on average in hidden crisis

  • Out in the cold
    Roger Davies died with nine broken ribs. Police deemed his death non-suspicious and sent him to a pauper’s grave

January 2024

  • Lachlan Wright (right), father of Jai Wright, embraces supporters at the coroner's court in Sydney

    Jai Kalani Wright: criminal charges to be considered in death of Aboriginal teenager killed in collision with police car

    Coroner suspends inquest into death of Dunghutti boy, which only started on Monday, and refers case to DPP

December 2023

  • A file image shows paramedics tending to their ambulance

    Victoria police cancelled ambulance for handcuffed Noongar man who collapsed and later died, court hears

    Police cancelled request for paramedics when Jeffrey Winmar came to, but he collapsed again and later died from suspected cardiac arrest, coroner hears

November 2023

  • NT coroner Elisabeth Armitage

    Kumanjayi Walker inquest: coroner declines Zachary Rolfe’s request to recuse herself from case

  • WA corrective services minister Paul Papalia speaks to media

    Prison officers watched movies and relaxed as 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd fatally self-harmed, minister says

October 2023

  • Victorian police officers walk among crowds at a festival in Melbourne

    Victorian government scrambling to prepare for long-planned end of public drunkenness laws

    Sobering-up facility not completed, emergency workers unclear about their role in new scheme – and it begins on Melbourne Cup Day
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