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Veronica loved art, poetry and talking about her Indigenous culture.
She is also one of more than 400 Indigenous Australians who’ve died in custody since the end of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991.
To make matters worse, 1991 wasn't even the first royal commission that had been held in regards to Aboriginal deaths in custody.
In 1987, a commission looked back at First Nation deaths in custody over a 10-year period, and gave 330 recommendations, most of which are still valid today.
Very few, however, were ever implemented.
It's the same story for the 339 recommendations that came from the 1991 investigation.
In fact, Aboriginal deaths in custody are only rising. Link
Not just in the USA that this has been happening but right now, the world is only looking at America. In a horrible way - just as George Floyd's death on camera has motivated people more than the shooting of Breonna Taylor (no video) - maybe these Aboriginal incidents need to be recorded on film for people to start questioning why it happens so often.