NAIDOC Week as it happened, in photos
Although NAIDOC week celebrations occurred in force across the country, parliament’s recent actions caused many to doubt that real change is on the way.
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Category: SOCIAL JUSTICE
Gymnasts encouraged to speak up during review of abuse allegations
A Human Rights inquiry into Australia’s gymnastics industry is underway, after gymnasts publicly shared accounts of their alleged abuse.
Read More#BLM: Convoy to Long Bay Jail
The call to stop black deaths in custody returned to Sydney’s streets, but this time protestors took to their cars to join a convoy to Long Bay Jail.
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Staff cuts, course cuts, fee increases and protest shutdowns. No wonder students are angry
“We’re going to have to seriously strategise as to what we’re going to do to resist that encroachment on our right to protest because it’s a very worrying trend that’s happening on campuses” – Jack Mansell
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Indigenous deaths in custody: ‘it comes down to political will’
It’s almost 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommended a series of measures to reduce incarceration rates. And yet they continue to climb.
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Climbers caught between a rock and a social movement
When you read the names of these rock climbing routes, it’s not hard to see why BLM activists are calling for change.
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Call for independent body to investigate Indigenous deaths in custody
Calls for independent investigations and evidence of intergenerational trauma have marked the end of the inquest into Tane Chatfield’s death in custody.
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Inquest into death in custody begins in the wake of #BLM protests
The inquest into the death in custody of a 22-year-old Gomeroi and Wakka Wakka man, has begun in the NSW Coroner’s Court.
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