NT Coroner Elizabeth Armitage’s report lays bare the “entrenched, systemic and structural racism” at the heart of the NT Police including “normalised” usage of racist, violent language that paints Aboriginal people as subhuman.
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At least 598 Aboriginal people have died in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission and there were more tragic deaths in June.
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Momentum is growing behind a campaign for Justice for Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man from Yuendumu killed by police in the Coles supermarket in Mparntwe-Alice Springs on Tuesday.
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On Tuesday 6 May, Gomeroi people led a 150-strong crowd of trade unionists and climate activists on a march from the NSW Supreme Court to Parliament House.
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The Victorian government has passed a bail law that includes removing the requirement to consider remand as a last resort for children.
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Albanese promised his government would create “real jobs” for Indigenous people. Its new program offers only 700 jobs this year.
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The new Country Liberal Party government is on the rampage in the Northern Territory, inspired by Donald Trump’s rapid-fire reactionary policy announcements in the US.
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Tom Fiebig looks at the famous Freedom Ride in NSW, which saw students expose the racism and segregation against Aboriginal people across the state
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The government is waging a major attack on Treaty principles in Aotearoa-New Zealand, writes Jayden Rivers, but gains for Maori did not come from the Treaty itself
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The failure of the Voice referendum left racists and the right emboldened. There has been a particularly racist panic about “youth crime”.
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