Here's what we knowNational Cabinet has 'ambition' for reopening by ChristmasTwo Richmond AFL players sent home from Queensland after Gold Coast brawlRescue workers have renewed hope for survivors one month after deadly Beirut blastBrisbane Lions conquer Collingwood but lose Harris Andrews to injuryBrisbane Lions conquer Collingwood but lose Harris Andrews to injuryMelbourne Storm snap Rabbitohs' winning streak, Knights overcome SharksSecond survivor from missing ship found as typhoon approachesRescue workers have renewed hope for survivors one month after deadly Beirut blastA children's inflammatory illness associated with COVID-19 has emerged in Australia. The latter requires an Aboriginal-led government-supported effort to improve Indigenous outcomes in child welfare, health, education and employment.Sixty-three per cent of Aboriginal people in prison are there for violent offences. She said in 1987, the family celebrated its formation. Alice Dixon was surrounded by family as she stood next to her son's grave watching his coffin slowly descend into the earth, but there was an unusual spectator in the Adelaide cemetery that day.The country's media were just a few feet away, cameras pointed at the casket, white reporters ready with notebooks, preparing to provide commentary on the black family's loss.A journalist stood over his grave to file her report, and described the teenager as a petty criminal.
Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, which ended in May 1989, deaths in custody have increased and Aboriginal suicides are up by 50%. "His friends and family tell of a 19-year-old boy who would have been 20 today, who had life and energy," the reporter told the world. NO MORE Deaths In Custody. They want our support and assistance in stopping it.But it isn’t going to stop if we do nothing more than reform the law and change police procedures.Real progress in reducing Aboriginal over-representation in custody will come only when we strengthen the hand of Aboriginal people who want to see their infants thrive, their children do well at school and those children get jobs when it is time to leave.Targeting police will do little to stop Aboriginal deaths in custodyHundreds of people protest in Sydney on June 6 against the deaths of more than 400 Indigenous Australians in custody. Days later, the Hawke Government announced there would be a Royal Commission in Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Similar research by Pauline Grosjean at the University of NSW has shown evidence of a link between clan violence in the Scottish highlands and violence in those parts of the southern United States to which many Scots emigrated.The fact the high rate of Aboriginal involvement in serious crime has its origins in the sequelae of colonisation and dispossession does not mean there is nothing we can do to reduce the rate of Aboriginal imprisonment or the number of Aboriginal people dying in custody.Aboriginal people know all too well what is happening in their communities. "She'd get calls like someone's lost, or another family member needs help, it was that constant, being on call for the community.By 1992, after five years of fighting for the rights of Indigenous people, Alice Dixon was tired.Her daughter said she was followed home by police one May afternoon and it left her rattled. In fact, Aboriginal deaths in custody are only rising. "I do not find it probable that he deliberately killed himself, but his actions and its tragic consequences were the situation the prison rules and regulations were designed to prevent. Her family left to mourn another.Susie Dixon believes her mum's fight was not in vain, but she is certain her deep desire for change has never been realised. "It raised awareness of how little they know about our history. "We don't want that pre-school to prison pipeline anymore — we want our children to aspire to to have professions. A matriarch and community leader lost. "No charges were recommended by the royal commission, and while his death was put down to a failure in prison policy, it was not ruled out that he died via "protest suicide".The day the royal commission's final report was handed down with its 339 recommendation, Alice Dixon was composed in front of the cameras. But the complete elimination of racist policing would do little to reduce the number of Aboriginal Australians in prison custody and the number who die there.Police treatment of Aboriginal people and Aboriginal over-representation in prison are two distinct issues requiring different responses. An investigation by The Guardian exposes over 400 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.1.
And yes, the way police treat Aboriginal children (and adults) needs to change.
They’re painfully aware many of their children are sliding off the rails and into drug use, crime and despair. "It's too late for our son now, but it need not be too late for others and for the future generations. "I think people were hopeful that the royal commission would be taken note of, and acted upon vigorously, that was certainly our hope and our wish and the need," she said. "People have no faith in the police system and law enforcement … but we are afraid to speak up for fear of being targeted.
Since August 2018, 17 more Aboriginal people have died in police custody, bringing this figure to well over 420.
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