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‘Time for talking is over’: Legal profession responds to deaths in custody report
By Naomi Neilson|18 April 2021
While major legal bodies have welcomed a new report into the high rate of Aboriginal deaths in custody, they have cautioned that the “time for talking is over” and urged the government to make changes and address systemic injustices immediately.
On the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, a select committee has released a new report and called on the government to fully implement the 339 recommendations from the commission that have been “gathering dust”, including raising the age of criminal responsibility and expanding court powers.
Three decades on, officials still under fire over Aboriginal deaths in custody
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Why was a sober, harmless man who had caused no injury to anyone locked up at all?
It was a question posed by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody when the inquiry examined the death of Yorta Yorta man Harrison Day, locked up in a police cell in Echuca in 1982. Left unchecked for three hours, he suffered an epileptic fit that killed him.
The same question posed by Commissioner Hal Wootten 30 years ago could be asked again in 2017. Tanya Day, Mr Day’s niece, hit her head in a police cell at Castlemaine and died in hospital. She had been arrested for public drunkenness after she was found intoxicated and sleeping peacefully on a V-Line train to Melbourne.
Victoria reports Aboriginal death in custody, legal service says justice system needs urgent reforms
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The man died in the Ravenhall Correctional Centre, in Melbourne s west, on Sunday.
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An Aboriginal man died in custody at Victoria s largest prison on the weekend, the state government has confirmed.
Key points:
The man is the the third Aboriginal death in custody to be reported in Australia this month
His death highlights the urgent need for sweeping reforms to the justice system , legal advocates say
The cause of death will be formally determined by the Coroner
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