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Indigenous News – Taser

by Robbo on October 8, 2010

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There has been recent controversy in Australia over the potential misuse of Tasers by the police. Graphic footage showing an Aboriginal man being tasered 13 times for not complying with a request for a strip search has made the news world wide. Here are links to articles covering the current furore,

multiple stunning of Aboriginal man with a Taser by WA police and of an 18yo pregnant woman are not isolated incidents http://bit.ly/bmrqxI

STUN guns were intended as an alternative to lethal force yet their use in Australia has led to four deaths http://bit.ly/cYBOHH

In 2008 an Aboriginal man who merely refused to comply with a strip search stunned 13 times with a taser http://bit.ly/cXfEgE

Is a high level national inquiry required to review need and use of Tasers in Australia http://bit.ly/c7OLBP

Death in Custody memorial service asks for Tasers to be withdrawn http://bit.ly/aU8XRa

Am overseas view: Police in Australia Taser Unarmed Black Man 13 Times http://bit.ly/c9La5b

Tehran Times a little over the top: Australian police tase Aborigine to death http://bit.ly/8Xzzoh

Police are overusing stun guns when they should be a weapon of last resort. http://bit.ly/cmgWqa

WA Shadow Attorney-General & victim want footage released of 2nd taser attack. Tasered 11 times severe injuries http://bit.ly/9Em3XB

Are Tasers lethal? NT stateline (video) http://bit.ly/csJDuq

NSW Aboriginal Chairwoman Bev Manton talks about her anger at police’s misuse of tasers on Aboriginal people http://bit.ly/94rceS

Perth man says he was never given the option of pressing charges against the police who tasered him 13 times. http://bit.ly/aXukUx

WA DPP will investigate whether criminal charges should be laid against two police over tasering man 13 times http://bit.ly/ds9jub

WA Police Minsiter told in May about the Aboriginal man tasered 13 times in police watch house. Didn’t see the video! http://bit.ly/d7tz1A

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Indigenous News Update – Employment

by Robbo on March 11, 2010

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  • Program to employ Aboriginal high school students at stations in the western NSW will help to recruit more officers http://bit.ly/bfPk9e

  • Rudd praises business leaders for indigenous jobs’ effort http://bit.ly/9hVGSu

  • SA Equal Opportunity Tribunal grants exemption Aboriginal Health Worker positions filled only by Aboriginal people http://bit.ly/bDVx5c

  • AGFORCE meeting the agricultural employee shortage by forging partnerships between indigenous youth & grazing industry http://bit.ly/aTeVld

  • The country’s only commercial vineyard owned by Aboriginal people has just harvested its first vintage in five years. http://bit.ly/bpWxE1

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Tagged as: aboriginal, Aboriginal Health Worker, Agforce, AHW, employment, Indigenous, police

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Indigenous News Update – Justice

by Robbo on January 25, 2010

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  • In WA in many cases police did not use their legal discretion to divert Aboriginal juveniles away from the courts. http://bit.ly/5DTMB4

  • Western Australia you’re 20 times more likely to be in jail if you are indigenous. Tough law&order policy does not work http://bit.ly/7uoWbJ

  • Police officer bashed when intervened in fight between 70 members of 2 aboriginal families. Feuding for thirty years http://bit.ly/842K98

  • The black heart of Australia. A summary of the trial of five men charged with murdering an Aboriginal man in Alice http://bit.ly/8Cvkbr

  • Call to redirect funds to build jails towards disadvantaged indigenous communities to cut spiralling crime rates http://bit.ly/5H2gWX

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Tagged as: aboriginal, Indigenous, jails, justice, news, police, prison

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