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Making actions speak louder than words

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Authors: Mackay and District Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation for Legal Aid Services, Ministerial Summit on Indigenous Deaths in Custody 1997
Publishers: Mackay and District Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation for Legal Aid Services

This paper is submitted by Mackay and District Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation for Legal Aid Services (the Corporation) to Indigenous Deaths in Custody Summit held in Queensland in […]

Inquest into the deaths of Edward John Riley, Rachael Henry, Chad Atkins, Teddy Beharral, Maitland Brown, Jonathon Dick, Lloyd Dawson, Benjie Dickens, Ivan Barry Gepp, Owen Gordon, Jonathan Hale, Ernest James Laurel, Joshua Middleton, William Robert Mille

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Authors: Hope, Alastair Neil, Western Australian Office of the State Coroner
Publishers: Office of the State Coroner of Western Australia

This is the report of the Western Australian Coroner’s inquest into the deaths of 22 Aboriginal people around Fitzroy Crossing in 2006. The inquest was held to explore the reasons […]

Indigenous women in Australian criminal justice : over-represented but rarely acknowledged

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Authors: Stubbs, Julie
Publishers: Australian Indigenous Law Review 15 (2011) 1

It is now two decades since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (‘RCIADIC’) delivered its final report, which documented the substantial overrepresentation of Indigenous people in prisons and […]

Twenty years on : Indigenous deaths in police custody and lessons from the front line

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Authors: Bartels, Lorana, Bartkowiak-Theron, Isabelle, Asquith, Nicole
Publishers: Federation Press

Chapter 12 examines those key findings of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody most relevant to deaths in police custody and custody-related operations. The extent to which […]

Review of Coronial Practice in Western Australia, Final Report

Resources January,2012

Authors: Law Reform Commission of Western Australia
Publishers: Law Reform Commission of Western Australia

This report contains the results of the review conducted by the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia of the coronial practices and procedures followed in the state. The Commission consulted […]

30 years on: Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommendations remain unimplemented

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This paper outlines concerns with the 2018 Deloitte Access Economics review of the implementation of the 339 recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC).  Further to […]

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: Review of NSW Government Implementation of Recommendations

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Authors: Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council (NSW)
Publishers: Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council (NSW)

This report contains the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council’s assessment of the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. It discusses the structure of recommendations, […]

Victorian Government Response to the Implementation Review of the Recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

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Authors: State Government of Victoria
Publishers: Victorian Department of Justice

This document presents the Victorian Government’s response to the Implementation Review of the Recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The response summarises steps that the Government […]

Restoring Order: Crime prevention, policing and local justice in Queensland’s Indigenous communities

Resources Nov,2009

Authors: Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission
Publishers: Crime and Misconduct Commission

Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the issues of relations between police and Indigenous people, the detention of Indigenous people in police custody and the overrepresentation of […]

Self-inflicted deaths in Australian prisons

Resources August,2016

Authors: Willis, Matthew, Baker, Ashleigh, Cussen, Tracy, Patterson, Eileen
Publishers: Australian Institute of Criminology

This report examines the changes in the prevalence and nature of self-inflicted deaths in prison over 34 years, comparing data from 1980 to 1998 and 1999 to 2013. While a […]