Kirstie Wellauer

When Tammy Shipley felt herself sliding into psychosis, she made a heartbreaking decision: She walked into a police station and asked to be arrested, believing prison would keep her safe. Here's what happened next.

Hundreds of legal, health and children's organisations are calling on Anthony Albanese to convene an emergency summit to address the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

A landmark Indigenous-led report reveals that racism remains a daily reality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers and, at the current rate of change, "it will take 118 years to eliminate racial slurs from Australian workplaces".

Tammy Shipley died in a NSW prison cell in December 2022 after consuming excessive water, a complication of schizoaffective disorder known as polydipsia. Today her children told a coronial inquest that "if love could have saved her, she could have lived forever".     

For Noongar Elders, the alleged attack on Boorloo/Perth is viewed against the background of a long history of violence. They are calling for a truth-telling commission to heal deep scars and help to combat racism.

A review of Australia's human rights record by the United Nations has heard "serious concerns" about its low age of criminal responsibility and rising incarceration rates.

Invasion Day rallies will go ahead on Monday after being exempted from NSW protest bans. Here's the story of how they started in the first place.

Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979. Experts say over-incarceration remains a national crisis and prisons are neglecting the physical and mental health of vulnerable people.

For the family of Dunghutti teen Jai Wright, the guilty finding against police officer Benedict Bryant for dangerous driving occasioning Jai's death lifts a "weight off their shoulders". Legal experts say it's the first time a police officer has been convicted in relation to the death of a First Nations person in custody.

Malarndirri McCarthy says she understands states "will make their decisions in terms of elections" when it comes to rising incarceration rates, but that all leaders have a responsibility to examine to the "profound impacts" of policies.