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Over A Thousand People Turned Up To Protest Indigenous Deaths In Custody On Saturday A death in custody doesn’t just impact the immediate family and community. It impacts every Aboriginal person in Australia.” - Paul Silva We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. Well over a thousand people rallied in Sydney on Saturday to protest against Indigenous Australian deaths in police custody on the 30th Anniversary of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC). According to Junkee‘s social justice reporter, Millie Roberts, there were well over 1000 people at Sydney’s protest. Police at the event estimated around 1250. ....
Thousands of protestors filled the streets across Australia demanding end to Aboriginal deaths in custody Marches were seen along busy streets in Sydney, Brisbane, Alice Springs and Melbourne on Saturday Nationwide mass protests come after there were five Aboriginal deaths in custody within the past six weeks Over 470 detained Indigenous people died since 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody ....
The statement comes ahead of protests across the country against deaths in custody. There are rallies planned for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Alice Springs and Lismore on Saturday, and Perth on Thursday. The statement was made by the families of Noongar woman Cherdeena Wynne (died 2019) and her father Warren John Cooper (died 1999); Noongar boys Christopher Drage and Trisjack Simpson (died 2018); Dunghutti man David Dungay Jr (died 2015); Gareth Jackson Roe (died 1997); Yamatji woman JC (died 2019, name withheld at her familyâs request); Yamatji woman Ms Dhu (died 2014); Anaiwan and Dunghutti man Nathan Reynolds (died 2018); Stanley Inman (died 2020); Kamilaroi, Gumbaynggirr and Wakka Wakka man Tane Chatfield (died 2017); Yorta Yorta, Wamba Wamba and Barapa Barapa woman Aunty Tanya Day (died 2017); Birri Gubba woman Aunty Sherry Fisher-Tilberoo (died 2020); and Wiradjuri man Wayne Fella Morrison (died 2016). ....
The NSW deaths only came to light after Greens MLC David Shoebridge asked Corrective Services Commissioner Peter Severin at a NSW budget estimates on March 9. Severin defended authorities’ silence saying that it was “not appropriate” to advise the public of deaths without any detail and “cause a lot of anger, a lot of angst and a lot of grief”. Karly Warner, spokesperson for the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT (ALS), called for government accountability. “While identification of people who die in custody must be up to families, the government should be more transparent and timely in the information they share with the public,” she said on March 9. ....
Last modified on Thu 11 Mar 2021 19.59 EST Aboriginal justice advocates have expressed their devastation following a third Indigenous death in custody in a week and demanded the Australian prime minister urgently meet with bereaved families to progress reforms. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (Natsils) representatives from across the country, who met on Thursday, said they were “horrified and deeply upset”. “We are extremely concerned that while our people continue to die in custody at alarming rates, federal, state and territory governments have had the answers to end this injustice for 30 years but have chosen not to act,” they said in a statement. ....