{"id":12201,"date":"2021-07-20T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2021-07-20T17:55:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:55:24","slug":"government-inaction-leads-to-aboriginal-people-dying-from-preventable-deaths-say-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/07\/20\/government-inaction-leads-to-aboriginal-people-dying-from-preventable-deaths-say-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Inaction Leads to Aboriginal People Dying From Preventable Deaths, say Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cAboriginal people are dying from preventable deaths in police custody because the Morrison government is continuing Liberal and Labors\u2019 legacies of inaction,\u201d said Senator Lidia Thorpe, a Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman who is the Australian Greens\u2019 First Nations and Justice spokesperson.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s been 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the Morrison government has failed to show leadership and implement all 339 recommendations. What\u2019s the point of a Commission if you ignore its findings?\u201d<br \/>\nAs a matter of national urgency, The Greens are calling for the full implementation of the Royal Commission\u2019s recommendations, a ban on lethal chokeholds, greater transparency around the reporting of deaths in custody and a culturally safe, properly resourced independent prison oversight system.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a matter of life and death, why should our people keep dying in places where they\u2019re meant to be kept safe?\u201d said Senator Thorpe.<br \/>\nDue to our community protocol, we will not comment on the recent death unless permitted to do so from family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAboriginal people are dying from preventable deaths in police custody because the Morrison government is continuing Liberal and Labors\u2019 legacies of inaction,\u201d said Senator Lidia Thorpe, a Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman who is the Australian Greens\u2019 First Nations and Justice spokesperson. \u201cIt\u2019s been 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/07\/20\/government-inaction-leads-to-aboriginal-people-dying-from-preventable-deaths-say-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Government Inaction Leads to Aboriginal People Dying From Preventable Deaths, say Greens&#8221;<\/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-12201","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\/12201","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=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}