What the Australian legacy media and the left chattering classes lie about and distort would fill libraries, but one of the most egregious is ‘black deaths in custody’. Australia’s taxpayer-funded left-wing propaganda collective ABC is at it again, this time shrieking that “Australia has recorded the highest number of indigenous deaths in custody in four decades.”
This all sounds very alarming until you realise that this ‘record-high’ is just 33 people. In just five months in 2024, 12 Aboriginal women were murdered by Aboriginal men. In fact, as statistics show, Aboriginal Australians are safer in prison than they are in Aboriginal communities.
The ABC won’t tell you that, though.
Nor will they tell you that Aboriginal Australians – I resolutely refuse to use the suddenly-fashionable imported nonsense-term ‘First Nations’ – are no more at risk of ‘death in custody’ than anyone else.
New data from the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) shows 33 of the 113 people who died in police or prison custody in the last financial year were First Nations — the largest number since records began in 1979–1980.
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people make up just 3.8 per cent of Australia’s population but account for more than one-third of the country’s prisoners.
First Nations people made up 29 per cent of all deaths in custody in 2024–25.
So… a third of prisoners, but slightly less than one-third of deaths in custody? Why the pearl-clutching?
University of Melbourne associate professor of criminal law Amanda Porter called the situation a “national crisis” that required “leadership and political action”.
“It’s maddening to see the number of inquests that I attend, the number of funerals that families have to attend, and the fact that we are 30 years after the royal commission, and the situation is getting increasingly worse,” she said.
But it’s not maddening to see Aboriginal Australians committing crimes at far higher rates than other Australians? If she’s so worried about it, has she tried suggesting that Aboriginal Australians just try, y’know, not breaking the law?
And why is it a “national crisis” when Aboriginal Australians die in custody, but not the rest of us? What makes one race so much more important than any other?
Isn’t that what we used to call ‘racism’?
Indeed, it seems they’re so determined to hide the fact that this isn’t a “national crisis”, that they resort to such ridiculous pea-and-shells games as this:
The data showed First Nations people, relative to the total First Nations population, died in prison custody at more than 13 times the rate of non-indigenous people, and in police custody at more than 10 times the rate.
And if you just keep swapping the shells around, 60 per cent of the time the pea is in the other shell all of the time.
In fact, the very next sentence explodes the fiction:
Indigenous people were less likely than non-Indigenous people to die in custody as a proportion of their prison population.
Probably having realised their mistake in actually telling the truth for once, the ABC immediately pivots to this:
They were far more likely to die as a proportion of their total population.
That’s because they’re far more likely to be in prison as a proportion of their total population.
Well, there’s an easy fix for that.
Amanda Porter said the grief from deaths in custody in Australia was borne disproportionately by First Nations families, leading many to turn to advocacy.
“Campaigns are being led by bereaved Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander families who have the solutions,” the Walbunjan woman said.
Like... not breaking the law?
What the media and race-hustlers also won’t tell you is exactly what a ‘death in custody’ is.
A ‘death in custody’ means any death ‘while under the care, control or detention of state authorities’. This doesn’t mean just ‘in prison’, but during arrest, even during a police pursuit or within 24 hours of such.
So, little Tjandamarra steals a car and crashes it long after the cops have given up the chase: ‘death in custody’. Old mate Billy gets released from the watchhouse, scores a hit to celebrate and ODs: ‘death in custody’. Two blokes from rival clans get in a prison fight and one is killed: ‘death in custody’.
In fact:
Five out of six indigenous deaths in police custody in 2024–25 occurred while police were detaining or attempting to detain the people.
So, to ‘don’t break the law’, we can also add: ‘don’t fight the cops and don’t try to evade police pursuit’.
[Lachlan Wright] said there needed to be more support for communities to stop the intergenerational imprisonment of indigenous people.
“It’s really hard to break the cycle of if you have been in jail, your parents have been in jail, cousins or family members have been in jail. It can sometimes be a rite of passage, which is really quite sad,” he said.
Well, to be brutally honest, that sounds very much like a ‘you’ thing.
Far easier to blame everyone else, though, isn’t it?
