Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Stop black deaths in custody /, Linda Adair and Mark Roberts

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Stop black deaths in custody /

Linda Adair and Mark Roberts

Describes a meeting held at the Sydney Town Hal on 14 April, attended by over 1200 people, to protest the ever increasin numbers of Aboriginal people who have died in police and prison custody; the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs announced a parliamentary inquiry into black deaths in custody the day before; speakers spoke of the experiences of the families of those who had died, and the way that their deaths had been reported; the meeting agreed to establish a Watch Committee to monitor Black deaths in custody