Aboriginal Deaths In Custody
No charges will be laid over the death in police custody of Kumanjayi White. Mr White, a disabled 24-year-old Warlpiri man, died on May 27 last year after being restrained by two plain-clothed NT Poli...
A young Indigenous man recently died in custody at Queensland's Lotus Glen Correctional Centre, it emerged on Monday. Queensland Police, who are preparing a report for the coroner on the May 1 death o...
The second death of an Aboriginal woman in WA's Bandyup prison in under five weeks has sparked further calls for urgent reform. On Saturday morning a 40-year-old woman was found unresponsive in her be...
A 40-year-old Aboriginal woman has died in Western Australia's Bandyup women's prison. The woman, the second Aboriginal woman to die in the prison is less than five weeks, was found unresponsive in he...
The emotional parents of an Indigenous teenager killed in a police pursuit have pleaded for their pain to be acknowledged when the officer responsible is sentenced.
Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, has acknowledged there have been "too many" Indigenous deaths in custody, saying the federal government is continuing to pressure sta...
A vigil outside Western Australia's Bandyup woman's prison has shone a light on the ongoing crisis facing Aboriginal women in custody. Held on Tuesday night, the eve of the 35th anniversary of the Roy...
Warning: This article contains the names of Indigenous people who have diedWith at least 630 Indigenous people having died in custody since the landmark Royal Commission 35 years ago, experts and advo...
34 Aboriginal community leaders, human rights experts, justice advocates and other notable Western Australians have issued a call for urgent reforms in an open letter to the state's government on the...
Thirty-five years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, it has been alleged that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese refused to meet with the families of some of those whose deaths...
The family of a Noongar man who died in police custody says the coronial inquest into his death has failed to understand "how police treat Aboriginal people".
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following article contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died.
Lawyers representing the family of Kumanjayi White say it is "deeply concerning" the family were not informed that an "independent" review into the use of force in his death had been completed.