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400 deaths, zero convictions: Australia's national shame.

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Veronica loved art, poetry and talking about her Indigenous culture.
She is also one of more than 400 Indigenous Australians who’ve died in custody since the end of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991.


To make matters worse, 1991 wasn't even the first royal commission that had been held in regards to Aboriginal deaths in custody.
In 1987, a commission looked back at First Nation deaths in custody over a 10-year period, and gave 330 recommendations, most of which are still valid today.
Very few, however, were ever implemented.
It's the same story for the 339 recommendations that came from the 1991 investigation.
In fact, Aboriginal deaths in custody are only rising. Link
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Not just in the USA that this has been happening but right now, the world is only looking at America. In a horrible way - just as George Floyd's death on camera has motivated people more than the shooting of Breonna Taylor (no video) - maybe these Aboriginal incidents need to be recorded on film for people to start questioning why it happens so often.
 
I don't understand why other countries protest stuff that happens in America.
 
swing_voter said:
I don't understand why other countries protest stuff that happens in America.
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Its the cool thing to do, plus as in the OP, they don't have to look at what is going on in their own country.
 
swing_voter said:
I don't understand why other countries protest stuff that happens in America.
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The US has been wagging their finger at the world for a hundred years........:naughty
 
Rexedgar said:
The US has been wagging their finger at the world for a hundred years........:naughty
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Correct. How dare the U.S. "wag their finger" at states like the U.S.S.R., China, and Cuba for massive civil rights abuses. The bastards.
 
swing_voter said:
I don't understand why other countries protest stuff that happens in America.
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It takes their minds off their own problems. Jealousy. Wishing they were here. Take your pick, or all of the above.
 
Indigenous people comprise almost 30% of Australian inmates but less than 3% of the national population, which is about four times higher than the proportion of African-Americans jailed in the US. But the majority of Aussies are not sympathetic to Aboriginals and the local media often portray them as primitive people who can pose a threat to a civilized society. A coronial inquest into the death of an Aboriginal inmate established that police and hospital staff had been influenced by preconceived ideas about Aboriginal people. I remember an Indonesian graduate student who made a racist remark on Aboriginals, despite the fact that they are actually closely related to each other through common Denisovan ancestry.
 
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Indigenous people comprise almost 30% of Australian inmates but less than 3% of the national population, which is about four times higher than the proportion of African-Americans jailed in the US. But the majority of Aussies are not sympathetic to Aboriginals and the local media often portray them as primitive people who can pose a threat to a civilized society. A coronial inquest into the death of an Aboriginal inmate established that police and hospital staff had been influenced by preconceived ideas about Aboriginal people. I remember an Indonesian graduate student who made a racist remark on Aboriginals, despite the fact that they are actually closely related to each other through common Denisovan ancestry.
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It also does not help that the aboriginals culture is often at odds with that of the english culture which is the predominant culture of their politicians. And that still in the constitution and laws of the australian government aboriginals can be excluded.
 
ThirdTerm said:
Indigenous people comprise almost 30% of Australian inmates but less than 3% of the national population, which is about four times higher than the proportion of African-Americans jailed in the US. But the majority of Aussies are not sympathetic to Aboriginals.
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It's hard to be sympathetic to people who commit crime out of all proportion to their population. People who believe that fathers should be allowed to rape daughters and other young girls, as this is "customary". People, many of whom, prefer to live in communities where everyone lives off government benefits etc.

Judge Rules Rape of Aboriginal Girl 'Traditional' – Women's eNews

An Australian judge ruled that a 50-year-old Aboriginal man's statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl is not a serious crime, but traditional culture. But feminists say violence against women is a result of relatively recent history.
womensenews.org womensenews.org
 
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