Opinion

Why don't white Australians connect with First Nations deaths in custody?

By Jenna Price
Updated April 23 2021 - 11:40am, first published 5:25am
Recent rallies marked 30 years since the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Picture: Getty Images
Recent rallies marked 30 years since the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Picture: Getty Images

"Justice is something that we are meant to believe will befall us eventually, if only we would just continue to hold out hope in the institutions responsible for the violence. Alternatively, we are told justice might arrive if we would just articulate more powerfully the tragedy of Black death; a justice only ever realised in the breadcrumbs of white benevolence."

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