More than two years have passed since a young Aboriginal woman died while being held in police custody in South Hedland, in Western Australia's Pilbara. WA coroner Ros Fogliani has released her highly ...
It's been less than a month since disturbing CCTV footage of a now-deceased Indigenous Australian woman's treatment in custody rattled Australia. 22-year-old Yamatji woman, Julieka Dhu, was locked up ...
The words of a grieving fat­her were perhaps the most powerful and emotive to come from the witness box in a packed courtroom 51 at Perth’s Central Law Courts this week. It was the highly-charged ...
A police officer has admitted her actions towards a dying Aboriginal woman in police custody showed no compassion or professionalism, and were inhumane. Police officer says her sergeant was frustrated ...
The Indigenous woman Ms Dhu was subjected to “unprofessional and inhumane” treatment by Western Australian police that was “well below the standards that should ordinarily be expected” before her ...
It’s been a difficult week for Ms Dhu’s family, hearing how doctors assessed her as having behavioural issues and police said she was ‘faking it’ in the hours before she died Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu ...
Senior Constable Shelly Burgess admitted at a coronial inquest in Perth on Monday that her actions were inhumane and she showed no compassion or professionalism towards Ms Dhu, whose first name is not ...
Ms Dhu was a 22-year-old Yamatji woman who died in custody in the South Hedland Police Station in August 2014. Arrested for unpaid fines, she was already suffering from pneumonia and septicaemia ...