Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and incarceration rates

Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

Last updated: 14 May 2014

Contents:

* National day of action for Rex Bellotti Jr (Thu 18 September 2014)
* About Justice Reinvestment
* WGAR Compilations (Last updated: 14 May 2014)
* National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (25-29 September 2013)

* NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR REX BELLOTTI JR (THU 18 SEPTEMBER 2014)

- Analysis / Opinion

The Stringer: National day of action for Rex Bellotti Jr
http://thestringer.com.au/national-day-of-action-for-rex-bellotti-jr/

The real facts on deaths in custody and the racism of incarcerating Aboriginal peoples - Moral leadership is needed

Gerry Georgatos Australia has one of the worlds' worst deaths in custody records - prison and police custodial - however this country's social wealth is envied by most of the rest of the world. Therefore, how is it possible that Australia, with its social wealth, perpetrate the most horrific statistics in terms of custodial deaths, in terms of the rate of deaths and in terms of crude totals? How is it that the Aboriginal peoples of this nation are disproportionately borne with the brunt of deaths in custody and borne with disproportionately wild incarceration rates? Aboriginal incarceration rates are five times the rate when compared with apartheid South Africa, and West Australia's Aboriginal incarceration rates are eight times the rate when compared with apartheid South Africa. In any other country these types of targeted incarceration and deaths in custody rates would have led to a civil war or en masse confrontations.

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WGAR News: Global call to action for Aboriginal rights in Australia

Newsletter date: 17 May 2011

Contents:
* Global Call to Action for Aboriginal Rights in Australia
* Interview with Muckaty Traditional Owner, Dianne Stokes
* Doctor: Public misled over nuclear medicine needs
* More on Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Renewed Call for a Joint Committee Senate Inquiry into Deaths in Custody
* Background to Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and incarceration rates
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other Aboriginal articles

GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION FOR ABORIGINAL RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA: