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Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, has acknowledged there have been "too many" Indigenous deaths in custody, saying the federal government is continuing to pressure sta...
A vigil outside Western Australia's Bandyup woman's prison has shone a light on the ongoing crisis facing Aboriginal women in custody. Held on Tuesday night, the eve of the 35th anniversary of the Roy...
Warning: This article contains the names of Indigenous people who have diedWith at least 630 Indigenous people having died in custody since the landmark Royal Commission 35 years ago, experts and advo...
34 Aboriginal community leaders, human rights experts, justice advocates and other notable Western Australians have issued a call for urgent reforms in an open letter to the state's government on the...
Thirty-five years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, it has been alleged that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese refused to meet with the families of some of those whose deaths...
Another young Aboriginal man has died in custody in Darwin, the Northern Territory Department of Corrections has confirmed. The 26-year-old was found unresponsive by Darwin Correctional Centre staff a...
Amnesty International says it is deeply concerned by the death in custody of a 25-year-old Aboriginal man in Darwin this week and is calling for a fully independent investigation into the circumstance...
A 25-year-old Aboriginal man has died in custody after allegedly struggling to breathe in the back of a police van. The man was allegedly arrested without incident after officers responded to reports...
The Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council is urging governments to take immediate action to address major gaps in Australia's aged care reforms.
The National Network of Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls has urged an end to over-incarceration after the death of a young Aboriginal woman in Bandyup Women's Prison in Western...
A 35-year-old Aboriginal woman has died in Western Australia's Bandyup Women's Prison. The woman was found unresponsive in her single-occupancy cell early Monday morning.
Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has renewed her call for the Bondi Royal Commission to be expanded to examine all forms of racism and hate, arguing the current scope does not adequately address viole...
A second rally condemning the high number of Indigenous deaths in custody took place in Sydney's Hyde Park on Saturday, marking eight years since the death of Waka Waka man, Patrick Fisher.
