The current frenzy around the Alice Springs crime wave risks risks repeating the same moral panics and deployment of top-down policies which disempower First Nations people, write Thalia AnthonyÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýVanessa Napaltjari Davis.
Thalia Anthony
This month marks 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody .
With five volumes of research, investigative accounts of 99 deaths in custody, and 339 recommendations, the report was meant to be a blueprint for reducing the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous Australians and deaths in custody.
But a quarter of a century later, the situation is actually worse.
The impetus