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The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report will be 30yrs old next April. That's a whole generation, but the recommendations still haven't been implemented. Our people continue to die because of the governments failures. #RCIADIC
It's important to remember the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was called because of Black activism. There was mob-led movement after 16-yo John Pat died in 1983, followed by more deaths in custody. Aunty Helen Corbett took it to the UN in 1987. #RCIADIC
The Royal Commission looked at 99 Black deaths in custody between 1980-1989, with so many deaths before that which go unrecorded. Black deaths in custody have been happening since invasion. Theres now been more than 439 Aboriginal deaths in custody since #RCIADIC report in 1991
I want to bring it back to #BlackLivesMatterAustralia and share some of the stories/voices of the families that I'm working closely with.
There's 438 black deaths since 1991. There are so many stories you should know. #SayTheirNames
There's 438 black deaths since 1991. There are so many stories you should know. #SayTheirNames
Blak deaths in custody continue at horrific rates - despite 29 years ago a Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths In Custody which set out a roadmap of why and how to prevent blak deaths. The 339 recommendations have been ignored. Read them here. austlii.edu.au/au/other/Indig…
Blak deaths in custody continue for many reasons but largely the systemic, structural & direct racism in the justice & coronial systems, lack of accountability & because we are mass incarcerated in the first place. Our mob are 28% of prisons but only 2% of the population.
Let's just recap what has happened in the protection/destruction of Aboriginal heritage in the Pilbara in the past few weeks, and the building campaign to speed up the very, very protracted efforts to amend the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA).
A thread.
A thread.
On 15 May, a group from the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) visited a rock shelter in Juukan Gorge, near Tom Price, where they planned to hold Naidoc celebrations. They saw blast holes drilled in the ground. The site was a mining lease owned by Rio TInto.
Rio Tinto received permission under s.18 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA) to damage or destroy the site in the expansion of its Brockman 4 mine. Permission was granted in 2013, by then WA Aboriginal affairs minister Peter Collier.
We've had a few well-meaning people email the #DeathsInside inbox asking for a names of all 432 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have died in custody since the royal commission because they want to write it on a banner or a sign for this weekend. A few points:
1. That list doesn't exist, or if it does we don't know about it (and we looked!). Our database is the only one I'm aware of that individually lists every death, and we only went back to 2008 because this work takes months and reports pre-2008 are often not easy to find.
2. Individual families may give permission for the use of their loved one's name but generally, there are cultural protocols against using names after a person has died.
And writing a list of names without permission would be further perpetuating colonial violence.
And writing a list of names without permission would be further perpetuating colonial violence.
.@latoya_aroha is here, talking about her experience at the #IndigenousPeoplesMarch in DC. She lost her brother Wayne Fella Morrison who died in custody in 2016. The inquest is part-heard. #InvasionDay 
Here’s some details about Wayne Fella Morrison’s death. There is some CCTV of how he was handled before being put into a transport van, where he died. A warning: it is confronting. theguardian.com/australia-news… #DeathsInside
Latoya says she protests every year, “and I am fucking sick of it. Because every year I keep crying, and every year people keep dying.”
She says we need to centre healing in the debate. “Me being here today, this is part of my healing.” #InvasionDay
She says we need to centre healing in the debate. “Me being here today, this is part of my healing.” #InvasionDay
I’m really excited to finally be able to share something we have been working on for a really long time. We read every available coronial file on an Indigenous death in custody and converted them into this searchable database. #DeathsInside theguardian.com/australia-news…
We checked each case against a number of data points, including average coronial delay, whether all relevant procedures were followed, and whether the person required additional medical care which was not given. #DeathsInside
According to our analysis, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who died in custody were twice as likely to have required additional medical care that was not provided - 32% to 15% of non-Indigenous deaths in custody. #DeathsInside
