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Open letter from WA community leaders urges reform on 35th anniversary of Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
34 Aboriginal community leaders, human rights experts, justice advocates and oth...
Giovanni Torre 15 Apr 2026
Senator Thorpe alleges PM refused meeting with deaths in custody families
Thirty-five years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody,...
Dechlan Brennan 15 Apr 2026
Death in custody sparks renewed call for justice reform
The National Network of Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls has...
Giovanni Torre 17 Mar 2026
Young Aboriginal woman dies in WA prison
A 35-year-old Aboriginal woman has died in Western Australia's Bandyup Women's P...
Giovanni Torre 16 Mar 2026
Dr Raylene Nixon's fight for justice and an end to police chokeholds in Queensland

On 7 October, 2021, Steven Lee Nixon-McKeller was killed at the hands of two Queensland Police Service (QPS) officers in Toowoomba. Stevie Lee was just twenty-seven years old.

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Amanda Porter Mar 10, 2026
Deaths in custody remembered as protesters urge change

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following story contains the name of a person who has died. The families of those who have died in custody have braved the rain t...

Latest revelation in court shows 'fatal restraints and duty of care breaches continue to kill First Nations people with disability across Australia'

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this report contains names and references to people who have died. The First Peoples Disability Network has called for urgent reforms after co...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 3, 2025
NT Chief Minister downplays inquest findings into Kumanjayi Walker’s death

The Northern Territory's Chief Minister has appeared to downplay aspects of the inquest into the police shooting death of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker, suggesting some of the Coroner's recommendations...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 15, 2025
Institutional racism in NT Police prompts leaders to urge action

In the wake of landmark coronial findings into the death of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker — which found the officer who shot him is racist and the Northern Territory Police Force exhibits "signif...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 8, 2025
Family of Kumanjayi Walker calls for accountability ahead of inquest findings

The family of Kumanjayi Walker says Northern Territory Police must be held accountable for the Warlpiri-Luritja man's death, more than five years after he was fatally shot by former NT police officer...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 6, 2025
Indigenous man dies in NSW Prison, sparking peaceful protest from inmates

Warning: this article contains the name of an Aboriginal person who has died. An Indigenous man has died in custody at Parklea Prison in New South Wales, prompting a peaceful protest by fellow inmates...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 30, 2025
Analysis: How law and order politics is fuelling Indigenous deaths in custody

Two weeks after the death of 24-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi White in police custody, a familiar and painful pattern has re-emerged across Australia: grief, protest, and official silence.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 13, 2025
‘Solidarity Means Action’: Magandjin rallies for Kumanjayi White

Thousands gathered at King George Square in Magandjin / Brisbane on Saturday to rally in solidarity for Kumanjayi White, a Warlpiri man from Yuendumu community who died in custody in Mparntwe / Alice...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jun 7, 2025
Boorloo/Perth rally on Sunday to demand justice and accountability for death in custody of Kumanjayi White

The people of Boorloo/Perth have been urged to unite in solidarity on Sunday after another Aboriginal death in custody sparked widespread calls for an independent inquiry.

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David Prestipino Jun 7, 2025
Rallies across Australia demand justice for Kumanjayi White

A rally will take place in Magandjin's King George Square on Saturday 8 June, calling for justice following the death of Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Aboriginal man who died after being restrained b...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jun 5, 2025
Kumanjayi Walker’s inquest findings delayed as Yuendumu mourns another death in police custody

The release of findings in the coronial inquest into the 2019 police shooting of Warlpiri-Luritja man Kumanjayi Walker has been postponed by a month, following the death in custody last week of anothe...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 2, 2025
NT Police reject calls for independent inquiry into death of Warlpiri man in custody

The acting head of the Northern Territory Police has rejected calls for an independent investigation into the death of a 24-year-old disabled Warlpiri man who died in police custody earlier this week.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 30, 2025
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