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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.
Key points:
- The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody reported in 1991
- WA’s Indigenous incarceration rate is 3.8 per cent, nationally it is 2.3 per cent
- WA Attorney-General John Quigley says the state has its own “particular shame”
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…
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