'Now's the time to stop the rot of First Nations people dying in custody, being over-imprisoned and having their children put into out-of-home care', Labor senator Pat Dodson says in an impassioned speech to the Senate on Wednesday night, a few days after mass Black Lives Matter protests were held across Australia. Dodson, who was part of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody 30 years ago, says Australia has not addressed the underlying issues that give rise to First Nations people dying in custody. He says any 'new-beaut system' that government is proposing must 'actually look at the systemic approaches that take place'
Aboriginal deaths in custody: Black Lives Matter protests referred to our count of 432 deaths. It's now 437
Deaths inside: Indigenous Australian deaths in custody 2020