Profiles Meet the person putting a stop to spit hoods across Australia Latoya Aroha Rule speaks to Women’s Agenda about their journey leading the National Ban Spit hoods Coalition.
News & Views Almost half of female deaths in custody are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander – and many were preventable Neglect and racism are leading to the deaths of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander women in custody, a new study has found.
News & Views Indigenous woman’s death in car crash in Darwin considered a death in custody An Indigenous woman has died in a car crash involving police in Darwin, in what is being treated as a death in custody.
News & Views “Cynical contempt for justice cannot be ignored,” Marcia Langton on Black Lives Matter “Every generation needs to be told why Black Lives Matter. Here we are again,” says Marcia Langton in her Thea Astley Address at the Byron Writers Festival.
News & Views Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody since 1991, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame Many people on this continent know more about police and prison violence in the US, another settler colony, than the same violence that happens here.
