Senate debates

Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Questions without Notice

Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

2:45 pm

Photo of Lidia ThorpeLidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister representing the Attorney-General, Minister Watt. We are in a black deaths in custody crisis, with 558 deaths since the 19991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Since coming into government, the Albanese government has implemented just one recommendation from the royal commission: a live body-bag count of our people coming out of prisons. Shame! That's one recommendation in two years. Minister, my question is: what's the next recommendation this government is going to implement?

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