Deaths in custody

AMA calls for governments to implement royal commission recommendations on Aboriginal deaths in custody

Exclusive: Medical experts also reiterate calls to raise age of criminal responsibility, saying detention facilities have ‘deeply adverse’ effects on children

Paul Karp

23, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

Veronica Nelson’s family call for big changes to Victoria’s bail laws

Exclusive: Mother and partner of First Nations woman argue for the right to bail and request reforms be named Poccum’s law in her honour

Benita Kolovos

21, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

Queensland police officers’ actions ‘could be considered corrupt’, Shiralee Tilberoo inquest hears

Final hearing into death of First Nations woman told failure by three officers to perform adequate cell inspections amounted to ‘human rights breaches’

Eden Gillespie

13, Mar, 2023 @5:19 AM

Aunty Sherry Tilberoo lying near ‘river of vomit’ before dying at Brisbane watch house, inquest told

Tamsyn White, who was detained with the Indigenous woman, tells hearing she asked officers to take Tilberoo to the hospital

Eden Gillespie

10, Mar, 2023 @4:54 AM

Brisbane watch house officer tells inquest she did not check if Aunty Sherry Tilberoo was breathing

Debra Haigh tells hearing she now understands she should have stood in front of cell for longer and used a torch to look for movement

Eden Gillespie

08, Mar, 2023 @7:55 AM

Aunty Sherry Tilberoo’s family call for ‘accountability’ over her death at Brisbane watch house

Indigenous woman’s relatives tell inquest they want to make sure ‘this never happens again’

Eden Gillespie

07, Mar, 2023 @8:10 AM

Queensland watch house officers repeatedly failed to properly check woman was breathing, inquest told

CCTV footage showed woman had been lying on floor behind concrete wall that blocked officers’ view on night of her death in custody

Eden Gillespie

06, Mar, 2023 @8:16 AM

Senior officer says dragging of Kumanjayi Walker to police car after shooting was ‘unacceptable’

Deputy commissioner of NT police confirms no plans to remove firearms from officers in remote communities

Nino Bucci

01, Mar, 2023 @8:03 AM

Deputy commissioner highly critical of botched arrest of Kumanjayi Walker, inquest hears

Murray Smalpage tells coroner he is ‘struggling to find a reason’ for deviation from arrest plan on day Warlpiri teen was killed by Zachary Rolfe

Lorena Allam Indigenous affairs editor and Nino Bucci

28, Feb, 2023 @7:06 AM

Zachary Rolfe may have tried to pervert course of justice with open letter, inquest told

Barrister for NT police says force is ‘extremely concerned’ by 2,500 word statement by Rolfe, who was acquitted of all charges in relation to shooting of Kumanjayi Walker

Lorena Allam Indigenous affairs editor

27, Feb, 2023 @4:51 AM