More indigenous deaths in custody as Australia approaches 30th anniversary of Royal Commission - a podcast by ABC Radio

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As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, there appears to be little cause for celebration.

Since its final report was tabled in 1991, there have been more than 450 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died in custody, and the Indigenous incarceration rate has also doubled from 14 per cent to about 28 per cent.

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