Yes, our treatment of aboriginals has been a national disgrace .. many on these boards would have no empathy with them at all .. sheeezz, even one of my ex-colleagues was a racist .. i said why and he said he had had an "experience" with them .. i told him, big deal .. "i have had experiences with whites too" .. his wife, when i checked her out a couple of days later, echoed his sentiments .. is ridiculous .. sadly, the booze really decimated their communities and thank goodness for the women who have led the charge to clean their act up a bit.
Guessing maybe this would never have happened to a white man ..
Elder Mr Ward: Coroner delivers damning findings
West Australian Coroner Alastair Hope delivers his damning report on the death of Indigenous Elder Mr Ward
It seemed that Australia's flagship TV current affairs program Four Corners .. http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2009/s2595622.htm .. had covered it all, and indeed many people were relieved that the full story of the mismanagement of both the WA State government, the Department of Corrective Services and the private contractor Global Solutions Limited around the death of Mr Ward had now finally been aired .. in full on Australian mainstream television.
Reporter Liz Jackson had resourced the story thoroughly, and several of the reports linked off this page below had become part of the Four Corners episode, from 2001 and 2007 reports into prison transport inquiries by Professor Richard Harding to the work by Keith Hamburger AM, who wrote in response to the complaints by immigration detainees against GSL after their horrendous journey from Baxter to Maribyrnong.
What the ABC story of June 15, 2009 did not note is that the company as far back as 1993 - under one of its previous names, Group 4 - was already making headlines in the UK media about a custody death.
What's on this page:
This page brings together some resources, links, documentation and media items around the release by the WA Coroner of his Inquiry Report into Mr Ward's death on 12 June 2009. The page finishes with two 1993 UK media items around the custody death of Mr Ernest Hogg.
Related:
* ABC Four Corners: Who Killed Mr Ward? - Reporter: Liz Jackson (Broadcast: 15/06/2009). Four Corners tells... the shocking story of a well respected community leader in outback Western Australia who was locked in a metal cell in the back of a prison van and driven through the desert in the searing heat. Four hours later he was dead. Reporter Liz Jackson reveals the tragic train of events that led to this death, despite repeated warnings that Western Australia's prisoner transport system was unsafe and inhumane. (link above)
20 March 2009: The Inquest into Mr Ward's death -
"The air conditioner didn't work. It was a scorching hot day. The trip through the West Australian desert took four hours.
While the guards made jokes in the cabin of the AIMS prison transport van, their passenger developed 3rd degree burns in the compartment one meter away from them, and he slowly began the process of dying. The camera equipment with the TV monitor in the front of the small van, was out of order. " http://www.safecom.org.au/mr-ward-inquest.htm
The damning indictments against Global Solutions Ltd, the company Australia uses to lock up refugees and detainees in immigration detention, the same company that has a contract for prisoner transportation in Western Australia, grew rapidly as the Inquest into Mr Ward's death progressed. This page brings together the media reportage about the inquest.
2 February 2008: Aboriginal Elder Mr Ward: another GSL Death
"On Australia Day 2008 a man was arrested for allegedly drink-driving. He was charged with one count of drink-driving and taken to the local lockup. He was then driven 570 kilometres to a courthouse, remanded in custody and driven a further 352 kilometres to a prison. As they approached the prison it was noted that he was unconscious. He died shortly after. He was Aboriginal. His death can be added to the eight black deaths in custody in 25 days in the Northern Territory already this year. If eight white teenagers died in custody in Victoria in 25 days there would be an uproar." http://www.safecom.org.au/gsl-custody-death.htm
in Custody - Last weekend's death in custody of an Indigenous offender while in transit by van, an AIMS Van operated under the contract with Global Solutions Limited from the Western Desert to Kalgoorlie was not by any means the first serious incident by this company, the company also charged by the Federal government for the running of Immigration Detention camps...
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