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See, for example, Aboriginal Issues Unit of the Northern Territory «Too much sorry business» in Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody National Report AGPS Canberra 1991 Volume 5 Appendix D (i); A Bolger Aboriginal Women and Violence Australian National University North Australia Research Unit Darwin 1991; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Task Force on Violence Report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Task Force on Violence State of Queensland 1999; S Gordon et al Putting the Picture Together: Inquiry into response by government agencies to complaints of family violence and child abuse in Aboriginal communities State Law Publisher Perth 2002.

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report — Volume 1, op.cit, para 1.7.6.

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report — Volume 1, op.cit, p15.

The position was created in 1992 with bi-partisan support as a direct response to the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the HREOC National Inquiry into Racist Violence.

The Framework also took into consideration the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1991) and the Bringing them Home — the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families (1997), as well as incorporating the findings of Health is Life — the report on the Inquiry into Indigenous Health (2000).

In the decade since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody incarceration rates for women have increased at a more rapid rate than for men, and imprisonment rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women have increased more than for other women.

[74] Commonwealth, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report (1991) vol 3, part D < http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/rciadic/national/vol3/3.html >.

An important outcome of the NILAC program is to improve the legal skills, capacity and training opportunities for Indigenous people, in response to Recommendation 212 of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

The Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory [14] has heard appalling evidence of neglect and abuse of youth detainees.

For example, since the 1987 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, there has been a steady increase in incarceration and as a result, there are more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in prison today than ever before.

[75] Commonwealth, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report (1991) vol 3 [21.1] < http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/rciadic/national/vol3/3.html >.

Nearly 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (the Royal Commission) published 339 recommendations for change, it is unacceptable that our people are still dying in custody after minor offending.

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report, Volume 2, AGPS, Canberra, 1991, Recommendation 62, p252.

are irreconcilable with the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report — Volume 1, AGPS Canberra 1991, p1.

These include the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody [3]; the Bringing them Home Report [4] and; Reconciliation: Australia's Challenge: the final report of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation [5].

A whole of community head contract was recommended by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths into Custody as a key measure for addressing ineffective delivery of services and inflexible funding arrangements that impedes development in Indigenous communities.

The findings of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory are essential reading for those who make policy and provide services in health, j...

In particular, it notes that the situation a decade after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody is far worse in terms of over-representation rates than at the time of the Royal Commission.

This section identifies a series of developments that have taken place largely since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991.

In light of the continued over-representation of Indigenous people, particularly women, in the criminal justice system, there is a pressing need for the continued implementation of the 339 recommendations contained in the Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, including any outstanding recommendations.

The issue is that mandatory detention is diametrically opposed to the accepted goals of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody of preventing incarceration wherever possible.

The implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in the period 1992 - 1998, and the development of a range of institutions, legislation, policies and programs to address racial discrimination (para 4);

Despite the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rate at which Indigenous people come into contact with the criminal justice system has not improved in the past decade:

The position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner was originally created largely in response to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and specifically to ensure that there was an ongoing, independent evaluative mechanism in respect of the human rights situation of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.

With the Royal Commission into Family Violence (Victoria) handing down its findings and the report due to go public this week, we take a look at the search for solutions in two very differen... Read more

The Committee notes with appreciation the many measures adopted by the State party during the period under review (1992 - 1998) in the area of racial discrimination, including those adopted to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Social Justice Report 2001 Contents Summary of the Social Justice Report 2001 Letter of submission Recommendations Chapter 1: Ten years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Chapter 2: Mutual obligation, welfare reform and Indigenous participation: a human rights perspective Chapter 3: Indigenous governance and community capacity - building Chapter 4: Laws mandating minimum terms of imprisonment («mandatory sentencing»)...

Principally these include the commitment of the Northern Territory government to the outcomes of the 1997 National Summit on Deaths in Custody (and the development of a framework for implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody); the recommendations relating to contemporary removals in the Bringing them home report; the Social Justice package proposals for principles to underpin the negotiation of local or regional agreements with Indigenous peoples; the recommendations and national strategies of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation; and in future consideration of an appropriate statehood model (and Constitution) for the Northern Territory.

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody identified two solutions to this problem:

Since the release of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 there has been an increase in the overall national adult prison, but a decline in the juvenile prison population.

In 1991 the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody identified the links between early disengagement with the formal education system and early involvement in the criminal justice system.

At least since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 it has been the subject of countless reports, research projects and roundtables.

Keynote presenters Donna Ah Chee, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress CEO, and John Paterson, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) executive director, discuss why health researchers need to support the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the need for ongoing funding for the Lowitja Institute, and how the findings of the Northern Territory Royal Commission into the abuse of children in detention must not just gather dust on the bookshelves, like so many before it.

The recent National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (NIDAC) report is the latest in a long list of reports since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody to suggest a multi level explanation for the continued Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system.

Have you or someone you know been part of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and have survived child abuse in institutions?

«It's been twenty - five years since the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody, yet the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults and young people in custody has only increased,» said Mr. Mohamed.

On 12 April 2011 I hosted a public forum to mark the twenty years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) handed down its findings.

2016 marks a number of important milestones in Indigenous affairs, such as the 50 year anniversary of the Wave Hill walk off and 40 years since the introduction of land rights legislation in the Northern Territory, a decade since Close the Gap Campaign and 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

The anniversaries of the Wave Hill walk - off from Kalkarinji by the Gurindji people, the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act, the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the launch of the Close the Gap campaign 10 years ago

Another landmark around this period was the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Death in Custody, initiated in 1988, with the final report published in 1991.

The Survey emerged from a recommendation by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody that found more detailed data would be needed to Close the Gap.

Marking 20 years since the landmark Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was no cause for celebration.

Aboriginal Issues Unit of the Northern Territory «Too much sorry business» in Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody National Report AGPS Canberra 1991 Volume 5 Appendix D (i), 373.

This year we acknowledge that 25 years ago the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) tabled 339 recommendations.

Aboriginal health services today called on all parties to back a Royal Commission into the devastating rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people as a priority for the new Federal parliament.

While the establishment of the Social Justice Commissioner was in part a response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC), I was concerned with the view that my role had a specific function of overseeing the process of implementing its recommendations.

«It's time there was a full Royal Commission into failings in the system that are driving so many people in our communities to such levels of despair that suicide is the only answer; and into what systemic changes we need to put in place to reverse such appalling statistics.

The Canadian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Peoples provides a striking illustration of the benefits of adopting a rights - based approach to overcoming rather than merely managing Indigenous disadvantage.

Professor Peter Brooks, from the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, also wrote a scathing piece for Croakey imagining a future «Royal Commission into Premature Deaths» caused by the budget.