Aboriginal Deaths In Custody
Australia's response to international scrutiny of its human rights record has been condemned by Indigenous legal advocates, who say the federal government is ignoring mounting evidence of systemic rac...
The minister responsible for Western Australia's beleaguered prison system is set to resign from politics this week. Paul Papalia has served as Minister for Corrective Services since June 2023, after...
A 42-year-old Aboriginal man died in custody on Saturday night. The man was admitted to Kalgoorlie Hospital on June 9 following his reception into Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison where he presented...
A coalition of Aboriginal and legal advocacy organisations has warned that a death in police custody is "imminent" unless the Victorian Government closes a loophole they say allows detainees to be hel...
An inquest into the death of a young Aboriginal man forcibly restrained by police officers will consider hundreds of statements, including evidence from a pathologist engaged by his family.
An Indigenous man has died while in custody at Western Australia's Casuarina Prison. The Department of Justice Western Australia said the 29-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell on Thursday...
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following story contains the name and image of a person who has died. The New South Wales police officer found guilty over the fa...
The family of a young Warlpiri man who died last year after being restrained by two plain-clothed police officers say they no longer feel safe in public spaces after it was announced no charges would...
Kumanjayi White's cause of death remains medically undetermined, Northern Territory Police say, as the Indigenous social justice commissioner says the decision not to charge anyone over his death high...
An emotional Lidia Thorpe says she, and thousands of other First Nations people, are "sick of being angry and devastated" at the lack of accountability over Indigenous 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...