A snap protest outside Long Bay Correctional Facility demanded an end to brutality in custody after a First Nations inmate was聽bashed. Jim McIlroy reports.
First Nations deaths in custody
Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe told Isaac Nellist and Chloe DS that the major parties are in a 鈥渞ace to the bottom鈥 on policy for First Nations peoples and that Labor has 鈥渄elivered nothing鈥.
Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent Victorian Senator Lidia聽Thorpe聽is calling for urgent federal intervention into the child prison system, after a 17-year-old boy died in the Banksia Hill Youth Detention Centre. Kerry Smith reports.
Megan Krakouer, Menang woman of the Noongar Nation, said the rate of incarceration of First Nations people is 鈥渙ut of control鈥 and suicides are rising at an alarming rate. Pip Hinman 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Protesters聽demanded Labor close the notorious Unit 18 of Western Australia鈥檚聽Banksia Hill Detention Centre the day before the inquest into Cleveland Dodd鈥檚 death. Alex Salmon reports.