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#deaths in custody #RCIADIC #blak australia #blm #Palestine #Boorloo #Perth #Western Australia #justice #protest #rally #Cleveland Dodd #aboriginal #Indigenous #Australia #auspol #First Nations #police brutality #acab #unit 18

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Racism in Australia

OK so here's the statistic filled rant about the disproportionate jailing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. (Heads up I have not proofread this)

So first of all, in a government article from 2018, adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up only 2% of the population (wow, I wonder why? It's not like there was mass genocide for centuries, people being put in jail therefore significantly less able to procreate, being taken from their families or lynched or anything... oh, wait). This is crazy enough. But you know what else? In the same article, Disproportionate Incarceration Rate (2018), those same ethnic groups made up 27% of the national prison population. "In 2016, around 20 in every 1,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were incarcerated". That's a direct quote. Reminder, this is a government produced article. They know how bad things are, they don't give a shit.

Between 2006 and 2016, the rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people being incarcerated grew by 41%. Yes, non-Indigenous incarceration rates grew too, but by 41%??? No.

More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women were targeted too, making up 34% of the female prisoner population, which is higher than that of non-Indigenous men.

In 1991, RCIADIC (Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, because yes, there are so many deaths in custody we need one of those) found that a lot of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people also had their land repossessed without treat or compensation... please tell me I'm not the only one thinking "again, really??"

"In 2016, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were 12.5 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous people, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women were 21.2 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous women."

"It is important to bear in mind that the majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people never commit a criminal offense." THIS IS A QUOTE FROM THE GOVERNMENT, I AM SCREAMING, THEN WHY ARE YOU JAILING THEM YOU MONSTERS??

In another article, Prisoners in Australia (2024), the Aussie Bureau of Statistics says that in the space of a year (2022-2023) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners increased by 7%. That's just in a year.

In that same article, it says that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners accounted for 33% of all prisoners, 91% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners were male, 9% female, and 78% of them had been previously faced adult imprisonment.

According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), in a 2023 article, 'Profile of First Nation's People', Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander made up about 3.8% of the population in 2021.

(Side note: my dad, who used to work with ALS (Aboriginal Legal Services) coordinated with the CEO a decade ago with a business plan for bail houses - which would have helped keep Indigenous kids out of jail when they couldn't pay bail, thus staying out of the jail system so less likely to go back...It would have saved the government $4 million AUD... the state government turned it down. I wonder why)

Guys this is just after reading a few articles and talking with my dad. Spending not even an hour of research and writing. There is so much more going on behind the happy facade of the Closing the Gap initiative. Please, don't let this slide. Educate yourselves and fight against this growing injustice. And please, reblog this.

#rock rambles #delete later #tw racism #tw jail #invasion day #survival day #australia day #statistics #fight the system

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April 10, Melbourne - STOP BLACK DEATHS IN CUSTODY - 30 years since the RCIADIC

#antifa #antifascism #antifascist action #australia #melbourne #aboriginal #black lives matter

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#indigenous lives matter #australia

[thatsnotcanonpodcasts]

The Death of John Pat, Part Two

This episode discusses Aboriginal people who have died.

In this episode, we discuss the police’s attempt to cover up the finding of John Pat’s body, the subsequent investigation, trial, and the eventual Royal Commission into John Pat’s death.

EPISODE NOTES:

Much to the despair of John Pat’s friends and loved ones, no really satisfying conclusion into his death was reached. And the Royal Commission didn’t really change too much, either. Aboriginal people are still imprisoned at a rate far greater than non-Indigenous Australians, and Aboriginal deaths in custody is still a massive issue in Australia.

You can read the entire commission into John Pat’s death here http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/rciadic/individual/brm_jpp/

You can also read a very excellent and necessary critique of the Commission into John Pat’s death here http://netk.net.au/Aboriginal/Aboriginal62.asp

You can listen to an episode of The Signal discussing Indigenous deaths in custody here https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/the-signal/how-deaths-in-custody-happen/12341864

And support the movement to #RaiseTheAge here https://www.raisetheage.org.au/

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Wayne Fella Morrison was a 29-year-old Wiradjuri, Kokatha and Wirangu Aboriginal man who died in police custody while on remand in 2016. Wayne died from asphyxiation resulting from being made to wear a spithood. The exact circumstances of his death are still not known and his family, particularly his sister Latoya Aroha Rule, have been campaigning for justice for Fella non-stop.

Multiple South Australian prison officers restrained Wayne; cuffing him by his wrists and ankles, hooding him with a spithood, and carrying him face down to the floor of a prison van. There were 7 officers inside the van, and no CCTV inside. Wayne was pulled out “blue and unresponsive” roughly 3 minutes later.

Fella’s family want to see a total ban on spithoods implemented immediately across Australia.

Please, if you can, please donate or share this campaign.

#justiceforfella #justice for fella #police brutality #blak australia #auspol #deaths in custody #Wayne fella Morrison #signal boost #indigenous rights #Australia #ban spithoods #death tw #violence tw #racism #rciadic #aboriginal #human rights #activism #First Nations

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This photo was taken 3 years ago. What has changed?

#rciadic #deaths in custody #self #protest #aboriginal australia #atsi #blak australia #deceased people tw

[thatsnotcanonpodcasts]

The Death of John Pat

WARNING: This episode discusses Aboriginal people who have died.

In 1983, a sixteen-year-old Yindjibarndi boy named John Pat died in police custody after sustaining injuries in the course of a fistfight with the police. His death was one of several Indigenous deaths in custody that caused an uproar amongst Indigenous Australia who believed, quite rightly, that the police were unfairly targeting, using excessive force, and ultimately causing the deaths of a disproportionate number of Indigenous people in police custody. John Pat’s death was one of several deaths of Aboriginal people in custody that caused sufficient outrage to spark a Royal Commission

EPISODE NOTES:

With the Black Lives Matter movement gaining more ground than ever, it’s important to remember that police brutality doesn’t only happen in America. Australia has a long, dark history of heinous treatment of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal deaths in custody is sadly only a part of the institutional racism that Indigenous Australians face. The death of John Pat, and of other Indigenous people we’ll be discussing in this season, was tragic, unnecessary, and was allowed to occur due to the systemic violence against Aboriginal people that has occurred virtually unchecked since colonisation.

You can read the Commissioner’s report into John Pat’s death here http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/rciadic/individual/brm_jpp/

This article discusses John Pat’s death within the larger context of Aboriginal deaths in custody and the Royal Commission here https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/john-pats-death-in-custody-the-impetus-for-the-royal-commission/

30 years after John Pat’s death, not much has changed. Read more here https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/09/26/3856987.htm

To learn about the Raise the Age movement, go here https://www.raisetheage.org.au/

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