Apryl Watson - ABC Radio Melbourne Drive
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Tanya Day’s family is calling on Premier Daniel Andrews and Attorney General Jill Hennessy to end deaths in custody by changing the law in Victoria.
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End Aboriginal deaths in custody - abolish the offence of public drunkenness
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The Human Rights Law Centre is representing Tanya Day’s family at the coronial inquest into her death. Tanya’s family is running a petition to change Victoria’s destructive public drunkenness laws and replace them with genuine community health alternatives to incarceration.
Read MorePremier Andrews must act ahead of hearing into Tanya Day’s death in police custody
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The second directions hearing in the coronial inquest into Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day’s death in police custody will commence today.
Read MoreDeath in custody: Coronial inquest into the death of Aboriginal woman Tanya Day continues
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The second directions hearing into the tragic death in police custody of Yorta Yorta woman, Tanya Day, will be held on Tuesday 19 March.
Read MoreMorrison Government missing in action at UN on International Women's Day
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The Morrison Government has failed to sign on to an International Women’s Day statement at the United Nations calling for access to safe abortions, comprehensive sexuality education and sexual reproductive health.
Read MoreSupreme Court finds mandatory sentencing laws should not have applied to 12 year old Aboriginal boy
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The Supreme Court today overturned the sentence of a 12 year old Aboriginal boy caught up by Western Australia’s draconian mandatory sentencing laws.
Read MoreUN told of discriminatory Australian Government program making life harder for women
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On International Women’s Day the UN will hear that the Australian Government is penalising single mothers with babies as young as six months through a punitive program that is making life harder for parents.
Read MoreUN Human Rights chief calls on the Morrison Government for ‘more humane policies’ for refugees
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, used her address to the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council to highlight some of the world’s worst human rights abuses and called out the Australian Government’s treatment of refugees and people seeking asylum.
Read MoreWA women to be exposed to 40 days of harassment outside abortion clinics
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The safety, wellbeing and dignity of women seeking reproductive health care in Western Australia will be at risk over the next 40 days, as anti-abortionists commence a 40 day picket for Lent.
Read MoreManus Island detainee calls out Morrison Government’s cruel treatment of refugees at the UN
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Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a refugee and human rights defender, who has spent nearly six years detained by the Australian Government on Manus Island, overnight addressed the UN Human Rights Council to highlight the Morrison Government’s inhumane treatment of people seeking asylum.
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