Aboriginal woman Tanya Day died in custody. Now an inquest is investigating if systemic racism played a role
- Written by Alison Whittaker, Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
If you haven’t yet heard of systemic racism — you’re about to. This week is the first ever inquest into an Indigenous death in custody to consider systemic racism. It has begun to take evidence of the role of systemic racism in the death of Aunty Tanya Day, a Yorta Yorta woman.
Day was taken into police custody from a regional...
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