The Aboriginal Legal Service of NSW and ACT today reports that\u00a0Barkindji man Anzac Sullivan, 37, died during a police pursuit in Broken Hill on Thursday 18 March<\/a>. Greens Senator for Victoria and DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjamara woman, Lidia Thorpe said: The Greens have again called on the Government to act urgently to end Black deaths in custody, following reports today of yet another death of a First Nations man in custody\u00a0 – the fourth in the past fortnight. The Aboriginal Legal Service of NSW and ACT today reports that\u00a0Barkindji man Anzac Sullivan, 37, died during … Continue reading “Four deaths in a fortnight – Black deaths in custody a national crisis: Greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n17 April 2021 will mark the 30th anniversary of the handing down of the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The report included more than 330 recommendations that, three decades on, have yet to be fully implemented. Since then, around 500 Blak people have been killed in custody – for which not a single individual has been yet held to account.
\nThe Greens today reaffirmed their calls, as a matter of national urgency, for:<\/p>\n\n
\n\u201cOn behalf of the Australian Greens, I wish to express our sympathies to Mr Sullivan\u2019s family, friends and community. I know they are hurting today. What they\u2019re experiencing is something that no family or community should ever have to go through.
\n\u201cAs First Nations people, we are sad – and we are angry beyond words. Why does this system continue to kill us off? We know that was the intent from the beginning of the colonial invasion – is this part of the same genocidal agenda?
\n\u201cWhy should our people keep dying in places where they\u2019re meant to be kept safe? The system is deeply racist.
\n\u201cAs recently as last week, this Government said deaths in custody were a \u2018tragedy\u2019, and said they were sorry.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve said it once, we\u2019ve said it a million times. Sorry isn\u2019t good enough. Sorry means you don\u2019t do it again. It\u2019s all talk and no action from these people, and these families deserve better.\u201d
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