The Victorian attorney-general has confirmed police will not be given supplementary powers after it was revealed the state’s much-criticised public intoxication laws will be abolished and not replaced with new move-on powers.
Sixteen Indigenous people died in custody in NSW last year,which is double the previous record in the state.
Clinton Austin was meant to be getting out of prison. His family is now mourning after he died in jail,one of more than 500 First Nations people to die in custody since the 1991 royal commission.
A three-month coronial inquest in Alice Springs will be the longest and most detailed examination of how Kumanjayi Walker came to die at the remote community of Yuendumu in November 2019.
A man aged in his 30s died at Port Phillip Prison hours after returning from St Vincent’s Hospital,where he was being treated following an incident in his cell.
Douglas “Mootijah” Shillingsworth died of an ear infection that may have been prevented by a check-up available on Medicare,which is not available to NSW inmates.
If we are to have justice,there must also be a sharing of wealth and power,truth-telling and a recognition of sovereignty.
A man has died in police custody after he was capsicum sprayed in a Murray River town on Sunday night.
CCTV showing Veronica Nelson arriving at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre,just prior to her interactions with doctor Sean Runacres - on December 31,2019.
The murder trial and acquittal of police constable Zachary Rolfe for the death of Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker highlighted long-lasting societal issues.
Douglas ‘Mootijah’ Shillingsworth,44,died at Westmead Hospital in February 2018. His family want answers about the medical treatment he received in prison.