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The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) (1987–1991), also known as the Muirhead Commission, was a Royal Commission appointed by the Australian Government in October 1987 to Federal Court judge James Henry Muirhead QC, to study and report upon the underlying social, cultural and legal issues behind the deaths in custody of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, in the light of the high level of such deaths in the 1980s.

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Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

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The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) (1987–1991), also known as the Muirhead Commission, was a Royal Commission appointed...

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Aboriginal deaths in custody

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1987 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC). The final RCIADIC report, published in 1991, did not find higher rates of death of Aboriginal...

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Death of Ms Dhu

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Her death marked roughly 340 Aboriginal deaths in custody since the conclusion of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. In October...

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2004 Palm Island death in custody

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Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. An autopsy report by Coroner Michael Barnes was produced for the family one week after the death. It...

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Royal commission

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in Custody (1987–1991), investigated the allegedly disproportionate number of deaths of Australian Aboriginals while in custody Royal Commission into HIH...

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First Nations Deaths In Custody Watch Committee

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the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC). The formation of the Watch Committee groups and the 1991 Royal Commission itself...

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Custody Notification Service

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1991 Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC), which had investigated 99 Aboriginal deaths in custody in the previous 10...

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Media portrayals of Indigenous Australians

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media representatives and community spokespeople. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody also made recommendations proposing the development...

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Reconciliation in Australia

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Indigenous land rights in Australia. The final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was published in April 1991, with one of...

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Brewarrina riot

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increased media scrutiny during years leading up to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, which had been announced on 10 August 1987.[clarification...

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Death of John Pat

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But all I see / in front of me is a concrete floor / a cell door / and John Pat. Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Grabosky, Peter N...

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Punishment in Australia

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among deaths in custody, they were only 3.2% of the general population in 2021. This led the government to establish a Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths...

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Reconciliation Australia

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organisations in the six states of Australia. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, which published its final report in April 1991, had...

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Royal Commissions Act 1902

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Home report List of Australian Royal Commissions Long Title "Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody". National Archives of Australia. Archived...

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Indigenous Australians and crime

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large number of Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1987, the Federal Government ordered the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The 1991 report...

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Western Australia Police Force

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formally charged in the matter and, as of 2023, the crime remains unsolved. The 1987-1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody reported on the...

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Crime in Australia

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"Deaths in custody in Australia to 30 June 2011: twenty years of monitoring by the National Deaths in Custody Program since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal...

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Jeannie Bell

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Education Policy Task Force, and in 1990 she undertook research for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. She has also been part of the...

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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

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the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987–1991) that there was no evidence that proportionately more Aboriginal Australians die in custody...

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Daniel Alfred Yock

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Service. As an Aboriginal death in custody so soon after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Yock's death caused widespread anger and...

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2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum

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recommendations from the Bringing Them Home report and Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody should be implemented before the Voice. Advance emerged...

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