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Strategies: Ensure adequate standards of legal representation; recognising traditional law; implementing strategies from Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission; coordinated presence of increased Indigenous employees in justice systems.

The passage of overriding legislation by the Commonwealth would send a clear message to the states and territories that they do not have unlimited power to introduce laws that further discriminate against Indigenous Australians, and would re-emphasise the importance of the recommendations of the Deaths in Custody Royal Commission that aim to reduce over-representation of Indigenous people in criminal justice processes.

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Twenty - five years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Reconciliation Australia reaffirms its calls for justice targets and early investment to reduce the nation's -LSB-...]

The need for specialised care for Aboriginal people in custody becomes even clearer, confirming the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Indigenous Deaths in Custody; that individual care plans need to be devised for Indigenous detcustody becomes even clearer, confirming the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Indigenous Deaths in Custody; that individual care plans need to be devised for Indigenous detCustody; that individual care plans need to be devised for Indigenous detainees.

This year is the 25th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

«The Western Australian Government, and indeed all governments across Australia, have largely failed to follow the road map provided 25 years ago by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody both on how to prevent these types of tragic deaths and also, really importantly, how to reduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's over-imprisonment.

The significance of these questions has been made evident, if not fully appreciated, through the chastening experience of the difficulties encountered in monitoring the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCADIC)[141].

Yulawirri Nurai, located in Morisset on the central coast of New South Wales, is an Indigenous Corporation established in 1996 in response to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC).

To independently monitor the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments» responses to Recommendations of the Royal Commission Inquiry into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

This was identified by Rosemary through her involvement in the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

The book outlines the Family Wellbeing program, developed first in 1993 by the Aboriginal Education Development Branch of the South Australian Department of Education, in response to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

The number of Indigenous deaths in custody in the decade since the Royal Commission has been 147, compared to 99 in the decade before the Royal Commission, climbing from 12 per cent of all prison deaths to 17 per cent in a decade.

Election driven law and order campaigns primed to drive up incarceration, a lack of government action to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and lack of judicial activism to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission on non custodial sentences are some obvious and ongoing causes of over representation.

It wishes to receive more information about the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

As the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody observed, the importance of re-telling history is not because it will add to what is known «but because what is known is known to historians and Aboriginal people; it is little known to non-Aboriginal people and... it must become more known.»

Third, responses to Indigenous over-representation in criminal justice processes over the past decade have been focused on responding (though not in a sustained manner or very fully) to the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

We all know about the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

In 1991 the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its final report.

He came to the post with a long family history of activism on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights and a deep understanding of #JustJustice issues, as the former Director of the Koori Justice Unit, which coordinates the Victorian Aboriginal Justice Agreement — a formal partnership agreement between the Victorian Government and senior members of Victoria's Indigenous population set up in the wake of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

This situation is made all the more perverse by the well - known Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody («RCIADC») and its 339 recommendations.

With only a small number of recommendations from the 1987 - 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody having been actioned, it is easy to feel despondent.

Twenty - five years ago, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) found that these social and health issues can be determinants of contact with the justice system, and need to be addressed in order to end the over-representation of Indigenous people in cCustody (RCIADIC) found that these social and health issues can be determinants of contact with the justice system, and need to be addressed in order to end the over-representation of Indigenous people in custodycustody.

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1991).

Professor Calma stated, «In the mid-1980s 99 Aboriginal deaths in custody prompted a Royal Commission and the current tragedy of Indigenous suicides should prompt similar attention.

These are just three of the 99 Aboriginal deaths between 1 January 1980 and 31 May 1989, which became the subject of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Failure to recognise the social determinants of health and failure to respond effectively to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody has developed into a situation where even the Chief Justice of Western Australia, Wayne Martin, told a parliamentary committee in August 2015 that «young Aboriginal people consider jail a «rite of passage»».

[21] One of the most important recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody had called on governments and Aboriginal organisations to:

[23] E Johnston, «Land Needs: Outstations and the exit option», Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report Volume 2, (1998) ch 19.

Also discussed in E Johnston, «Land Needs: Outstations and the exit option», Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report Volume 2, (1998) ch 19.

As a society we can not afford to look back in 10 years» time on the reconciliation process with the same regrets we now do on the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

In accordance with recommendations that had been made in the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991, block funding and funding over triennial periods were noted by ATSIC «as means of improving planning possibilities and outcomes for communities.»

For example, life expectancy has begun to decline for Indigenous people in Australia and still exists at levels comparable to the rate for non-Indigenous Australians in the year 1900; incarceration rates and rates of over-representation in custody have increased since the Royal Commission over ten years ago - for example, Indigenous juveniles comprise 42 % of all juveniles in custody at any one time, despite being 2 % of the general population; and there has been limited improvement in health statistics in the past decade.

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was established to investigate the deaths of 99 Indigenous people in the custody of police, prison or juvenile detention centres between 1 January 1980 and 31 MaCustody was established to investigate the deaths of 99 Indigenous people in the custody of police, prison or juvenile detention centres between 1 January 1980 and 31 Macustody of police, prison or juvenile detention centres between 1 January 1980 and 31 May 1989.

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report - Volume 2, p1.

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody concluded that the over-representation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system is inextricably linked to their socio - economic status.

A significant feature of these deaths was that there were significantly fewer deaths in police custody (as opposed to in prisons) which tends to indicate that the implementation of recommendations of the Royal Commission relating to conditions and design of police custody had some impact.

For many years, various inquiries (most notably the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody) have recognised the link between social disadvantage and criminalisation.

He held many important official positions such as the director of the Aboriginal Legal Service Western Australia; he was a key figure in the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody, and instigated the Inquiry into the Stolen Generations, and held key positions such as advisor to the office of the Commonwealth Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.

Last week saw the publication of the latest National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS), conducted every six years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and one of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Twenty - five years ago, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody reported gaps in continuity of care, and warned us of underlying social and economic disadvantage worsening and leading to an increase in prison numbers.

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 recommended the establishment of the Custody Notification Service.

Some of Michelle's career highlights include the 2012 Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) International Award, Best Radio Personality «Michelle Lovegrove: A Voice of Many Indigenous Stories Across Australia»; the Walkley Award for coverage of Indigenous Affairs and the UN Media Peace Award for Best Online 2012 both for «The Block: Stories From A Meeting Place; The UN Media Peace Award for Radio, «Two Decades, Too Little, Too Late for Many: What became of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody?»

The events at Don Dale are a reminder that, 25 years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, many of the recommendations have not been implemented and young people are still being harmed by the prison system.

Gooda agreed with one delegate that the conference may not have been necessary had governments implemented all the findings of the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody.

The rising remand numbers were breaching the recommendation from the Royal Commission in Aboriginal Deaths in Custody that prison should be a «last resort».

Tomorrow (15 April), it will be 25 years since the report of the Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths In Custody (RCIADIC) was presented to governments.

Mick Gooda saying we likely would not have needed to be there had the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody been implemented.

She was formerly an Executive Officer of one of nine Victorian Regional Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committees, formed out of the work of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

At the time of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were being imprisoned at a rate 7 times higher than the non-Indigenous population.

And it comes amid growing frustration in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that decades of vital inquiries and recommendations for urgent change, such as those from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the Bringing Them Home report, end up in filing cabinets and on dusty shelves, not in action on the ground.