The Real Facts of Deaths in Custody in Australia

In Australia there are more deaths in custody than during the peak apartheid in South Africa. Something needs to change.

In 2010 the WA state government and the department of public prosecutions has refused to lay any charges over the death of Mr Ward, an aboriginal man burnt to death in the back of a private security van. On the basis of one private report that is not being released to the public, despite the coroner's report pointing out many cases of blame.

There needs to be an independent public inquiry into deaths in custody in Australia.

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[activistsfilms]

Also Australia has one of the highest rates of privatised prisons, our justice system needs to be publicly owned.

[tittymumma]

@SuperGeorgatos - you are a lying piece of shit. Australian society is definitely tiring of bullshit presentations like this. Go lick your brother's sister's mother's arsehole you fucking idiot.

[tittymumma]

You state on your video intro - In Australia there are more deaths in custody than during the peak apartheid in South Africa. Something needs to change - mmmm, very interesting. You are using a bullshit statistic to further your bullshit cause. Aboriginals are an absolute scourge on Australian society. Quite a lot of these so called "deaths in custody" are a result of natural causes you lying piece of shit. You people are fucking evil deceitful pieces of shit.

[SuperGeorgatos]

The Human Rights Alliance meets every Wednesday 5:30pm in East Perth, level 1, 75 Stirling St., (Hellenic Club). We also meet in Armadale and Rockingham. Found out more by emailing gerry_georgatos@yahoo.com.au

[SuperGeorgatos]

"A theologian said that all will be well with me and all permitted to the degree that I obey the Council, and he added, 'If the council were to declare that you have but one eye, despite the fact that you may have two, it is your duty to agree with the Council.' I replied to him: 'Even if the whole world were to affirm that, I, utilising whatever reason I may possess, could not acknowledge such a thing without a rejection of my conscience.'" (Karel Kosik, Czech philosopher and victim)

[SuperGeorgatos]

'Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.'

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."- MLK

[SuperGeorgatos]

First Do No Harm.

[SuperGeorgatos]

Please circulate this YouTube as we need to get the word out there how extensive deaths in custody in this country is. In WA we need an Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee specialisation - if we eliminate Aboriginal deaths in custody we will get it right for everyone, for all Australians, and for other social justice groups to keep on an eye on non-Aboriginal deaths in custody. That's what I am doing, working with both in order to shine a light. Can't go on.

[SuperGeorgatos]

Deaths in custody in Australia is so scandalous and its extensiveness so little known that I am doing my PhD in Australian Deaths in Custody. Firstly, do what you can to get involved whether through the Deaths in Custody Watch Committee, The Aboriginal Party, The Human Rights Alliance... Secondly, in this state of WA, we are one of the few to have more Aboriginal deaths in custody than non-Aboriginal deaths, three times the national average. The time for change must be near.

[SapperK9]

In the Elder Ward case, please stop calling for implementation of the Coroner's recommendations, it lends credibility to the incompetent.

His recommendations are fundamentally flawed and Elder Ward deserves a new independent Inquest by someone qualified not just in law, but also expertise in automotive engineering...