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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
First Nations activists prevented killer cop Zachary Rolfe, who shot and killed Kumanjayi Walker in 2019, from speaking at a police conference. Zebedee Parkes reports.
Warlpiri Elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves wrote this open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese demanding he take action to deliver justice for Kumanjayi White, the 24-year-old Warlipiri man who was killed by police in May.
Very little is known about the circumstances of young Warlpiri man, Kumanjayi White’s, death in custody because the police and state have closed ranks. Paul Gregoire reports on the push-back against this criminal pattern.
Protesters, including Aunty Gail Hickey, are still demanding that the NSW Police officers that chased TJ Hickey to his death in 2004 be brought to justice. Paul Gregoire reports.
Green Left’s Alex Bainbridge spoke to Independent Senator and DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara Lidia Thorpe about Labor’s promises and record on addressing First Nations’ injustices.
