Northern Territory police announced that the cause of Kumanjayi White’s death last year was “equivocal”. The family say justice is not being done and their hearts are broken. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Thirty-five years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the situation remains dire across Australia, with one prison in Western Australia reporting the deaths of two women in as many months. Blair Vidakovich and Cas Smith report.
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Wendy Thompson argues that LGBTIQ people need appropriate, accessible and competent services instead of police deployed for protests, mental health calls and hate crimes.
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Uncle Lionel Fogarty worked tirelessly on political campaigns for Aboriginal rights, while earnestly and consistently crafting provocative, complex poetry, writes Jim McIlroy.
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Ahead of the Day of Mourning, January 26, three First Nations Noongar elders are demanding federal and state governments implement all the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Kerry Smith reports.
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To mark 10 years since his uncle, Dunghutti man David Dungay jnr, was murdered at Long Bay jail, Paul Silva organised a protest at Hyde Park, which also challenged the NSW’s new draconian anti-protest laws. Rachel Evans reports.
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The rising number of Aboriginal deaths in custody — a form of state-sponsored violence — is a scathing indictment of law enforcement and the judicial system, writes Mark Gillespie.
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The Australian Institute of Criminology has just released a report showing that 33 First Nations people died in prison custody, police custody and custody-related operations and youth detention over 2024–25 — the highest such number since 1979–80. Kerry Smith reports.
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In a significant first, a New South Wales police officer was found guilty for the death in custody of Dunghutti teenager Jai Kalani Wright. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Lidia Thorpe and Alex Bainbridge discuss the Red Lines package against genocide and the campaign against Black deaths in custody in the latest episode of the Green Left Show.
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Aboriginal organisations and independent Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe are calling on the federal government to suspend federal funds for policing and prisons in the Northern Territory until the Country Liberal Party government reduces the incarceration of First Peoples and children. Kerry Smith reports.
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Nearly 600 First Nations people have died in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was tabled. We need a lot more truth-telling and real action, argues Peter Boyle.