Australian deaths in custody and the call for a Senate inquiry – joint committee

Australian deaths in custody - one of the world's worst records - has become an obsession with me as I quickly compile a University Press book for community and research my PhD (Law) from a criminological aspect into the extensiveness of Australian deaths in custody. The Human Rights Alliance is working to disseminate the facts, and is beginning regional Deaths in Custody Advocacy Units to help affected families especially with their rights, and we continue the campaign calling upon the Australian Senate for an urgent Joint Committee Inquiry. There are a number of concerned human rights groups and some agencies such as the Aboriginal Legal Services and the Australian Human Rights Commission complementing each other in shining the light. We all need to spread the word.
Australia has one of the world’s worst deaths in custody records. Deaths in custody includes prison and police custody. We, of The Human Rights Alliance, have called upon our 76 Australian Senators to initiate an Australian Senate Inquiry into Australian Deaths in Custody. We ask that any Inquiry ensure a Joint Committee of Senators and experts, and not only researchers from the Australian Institute of Criminology however expert researchers from the Australian Human Rights Commission, and academics who have researched the criminal justice system and include our most respected and qualified Aboriginal Elders. It is negligence and constitutional impropriety for the Commonwealth to delay an Inquiry into Deaths in Custody. I myself have commenced a PhD (Law), through James Cook University, from a criminological aspect of the extensiveness of Deaths in Custody in our Australia. I am quickly writing a book for community, through a University Press, so as to en masse raise community awareness about the extensiveness of Australian Deaths in Custody.
There are more non-Aboriginal deaths in custody than Aboriginal deaths. The rate of Aboriginal deaths in custody is higher than in South Africa during the peak of apartheid (excluding Apartheid South Africa’s ex-judicial killings). Most Australians have not realised the extent of deaths in custody, and we must ensure they do so we can move to the next step of procuring genuine remedies and save lives...

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 Gerry Georgatos @'Indymedia'

I'm playing catch-up on this issue(almost a year late), misguidedly thought that this problem had been long resolved, unfortunately its persistence within Australian society condemns/damns us all for its continuing iniquity. With a public apology, to the Indigenous People of Australia for past"treatment" since colonization, by the Rudd government some few years past, such alarming statistics/deaths tragically tell the reality of Australia's current indigenous relations.
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