First Nations deaths in custody

Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent Victorian Senator Lidia聽Thorpe聽is calling for urgent federal intervention into the child prison system, after a 17-year-old boy died in the Banksia Hill Youth Detention Centre. Kerry Smith reports.

Megan Krakouer at Ecosocialism 2024

Megan Krakouer, Menang woman of the Noongar Nation, said the rate of incarceration of First Nations people is 鈥渙ut of control鈥 and suicides are rising at an alarming rate. Pip Hinman 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听

Protesters聽demanded Labor close the notorious Unit 18 of Western Australia鈥檚聽Banksia Hill Detention Centre the day before the inquest into Cleveland Dodd鈥檚 death. Alex Salmon reports.