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The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987-1991) investigated allegations of murder of Australian Aboriginals in prison.
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Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Reports
Underlying Issues, Individual Deaths
Summary
Note: The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation draws your attention to the cultural sensitivity of issues and material in the individual death reports of the Royal Commission. The Council asks that, in accessing and using these reports, you be aware of this and of the sensitivities of the living relatives and friends of those whose deaths are recorded in these documents.
The RoyalCommissionintoAboriginalDeaths in Custody was established in 1987 by the Commonwealth of Australia, Australia's six State Governments and the Northern Territory of Australia.
No individual custodial officers were found to have caused any of the deaths by deliberate violence or brutality, but many of the deaths were found to have bee the result of system failures and, especially, the failure of many custodial officers to exercise their duty of care to people in their custody.
Aboriginal organisations have generally rejected the RoyalCommission's findings and are frustrated at what they see as inadequate implementation of many of the Commission's key recommendations.
RoyalCommissions are usually chaired by one or more notable figures; because of their quasi-judicial powers, the Commissioners are often retired senior judges.
RoyalCommissionintoAboriginalDeaths in Custody (1987-1991) investigated allegations of murder of Australian Aboriginals in prison.
RoyalCommission of Inquiry in respect of certain matters relating to allegations of organised crime in clubs ("Moffitt RoyalCommission") (1973-74) investigated organised crime in New South Wales.
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