Protestors in Perth call for change three decades after report into Aboriginal deaths in custody

Protestors have marched through Perth’s city streets marking three decades since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report was tabled.

In Western Australia – where the rate of Indigenous incarceration is the highest in the nation — protestors carried black crosses to remember those who had died.

Among the calls for change were the abolition of mandatory sentencing, a raising of the age of criminal responsibility and government investment in justice reinvestment programs…