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Calls for Ken Wyatt to pressure the states to better prevent Aboriginal deaths in custody
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Ken Wyatt s family has been directly touched by deaths in custody.
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The most powerful Indigenous politician in the country is coming under increasing pressure to lead the response to deaths in custody, an issue that is personal for him.
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As of 2018, about a third of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody s recommendations had not been fully implemented
In 1991, the incarceration rate for Indigenous Australians was 14 per cent, now it is nearly 30 per cent.
Advocacy groups want the federal government to pressure states and territories to cut deaths in custody
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Indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are globally the highest incarcerated people, making up 28 percent of the prison population even though they comprise only 3.3 percent of the total Australian population.