Australia is outraged over George Floyd. But what about black lives on our shores?
Amy McQuire is a Darumbal journalist and writer from Rockhampton, Central Queensland, Australia.
In the same week that tens of thousands of Australians began taking to the streets in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, an Aboriginal man died in custody in a Perth jail. An Aboriginal woman was allegedly body-slammed by a guard in a women’s prison in the same city and sent to the hospital in critical condition. In the Northern Territory, reports emerged that a 5-month-old baby had died after police arrested her mother and left the baby at home with two adults who were drinking.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/australia-is-outraged-over-george-floyd-what-about-black-lives-our-shores/
In the same week that tens of thousands of Australians began taking to the streets in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, an Aboriginal man died in custody in a Perth jail. An Aboriginal woman was allegedly body-slammed by a guard in a women’s prison in the same city and sent to the hospital in critical condition. In the Northern Territory, reports emerged that a 5-month-old baby had died after police arrested her mother and left the baby at home with two adults who were drinking.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/australia-is-outraged-over-george-floyd-what-about-black-lives-our-shores/
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