‘Nice words and good intentions ... have not seen a reduction in deaths in custody’ says Pat Dodson about new proposal to end Aboriginal deaths in custody
‘Now’s the time to stop the rot of First Nations people dying in custody, being over-imprisoned and having their children put into out-of-home care’, Labor senator Pat Dodson says in an impassioned speech to the Senate on Wednesday night, a few days after mass Black Lives Matter protests were held across Australia.
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