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Indigenous incarceration

July 2024

  • The Aboriginal flag next to Australia's coat of arms

    ‘Deeply troubling’ trends found in first Closing the Gap report since voice referendum defeat

  • Arrernte woman Leanne Liddle in her home in Darwin

    Nobody is happy with the Northern Territory police, including officers. Leanne Liddle hopes to fix that

  • 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

  • Sue Duncombe

    In the box
    Crime and nourishment: the Koori court giving help and hope to traumatised kids

  • In the box
    Inhumane treatment of kids in custody won’t make Queenslanders safer. Empathy must triumph over fear

    Natalie Lewis
  • In the box
    ‘Harrowing’ footage sparks calls for Queensland government to remove children from police watch houses

  • In the box
    What is FASD, and why do so many children with it end up in Australia’s justice system?

  • Full Story
    Screaming and freezing: the kids put in Queensland isolation cells – Full Story podcast

  • In the box
    Screaming, freezing, struggling to breathe: confronting Queensland watch house footage exposes anguish of children locked in isolation cells

  • In the box
    'It's too cold in here': disabled First Nations girl's anguish revealed in watch house CCTV – video

  • In the box
    'I can't breathe': teenage boy gasps for air after fire lit in Queensland watch house – video

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

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

March 2024

  • Senator Lidia Thorpe

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

    Exclusive: Victorian senator criticises lack of monitoring of royal commission recommendations and demands ‘tangible and achievable action’
  • 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

    Courts and justice reporter Nino Bucci tells Nour Haydar how Zachary Rolfe’s evidence at the inquest into Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker’s death raised questions about a culture of widespread racism in the NT police force
  • Prison wire Australia

    Indigenous prisoner used pencil sharpener and tweezers on ingrown toenail after healthcare delay

    Victorian ombudsman’s report says prison system is failing to meet needs of Aboriginal people, which is ‘wrong and discriminatory’

February 2024

  • Anthony Albanese addressed parliament on the 16th anniversary of the national apology to the stolen generations, saying only 11 out of 19 socio-economic outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were improving

    4:26

    'We have to listen': PM speaks on anniversary of apology to stolen generations – video

  • Protestors wearing spit hoods

    Advocates call for national ban on spit hoods after NSW becomes second state to outlaw their use

  • Olivia Centofanti holds a family photo of Pasquale Giorgio

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

  • Family photos of Roger Davies

    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

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