We've just heard in detail how staff failed to check on Veronica during her final hours, and how her cries for help were ignored, and she was found naked and cold in her cell with the shower running.
There is not a dry eye in the court room.
#JusticeforVeronicaNelson
Coroner: I find the Bail Act has a discriminatory impact on First Nations people, resulting in grossly disproportionate rates remanded in custody, the most egregious of which affects alleged offenders who are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
#JusticeForVeronicaNelson
Coroner: Insofar as the prosecutor did not alert the bail decision maker to the relevance of Veronica's aboriginality During the bail hearing on 31 December, I find that he failed to properly consider Veronica's Charter rights.
#JusticeForVeronicaNelson
For those who can't attend in person tomorrow but wish to show their support for Veronica's family, you can listen to the livestream here: https://t.co/gNqRx1bXCx
We will also be live tweeting the findings here. #JusticeForVeronicaNelson
Tomorrow at 10am Coroner Simon McGregor will hand down the findings of the inquest into the death of Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri & Yorta Yorta woman Veronica Nelson. Veronica's family welcome in person community attendance. #JusticeForVeronicaNelson
Vic Gov ignores grieving families by awarding this contract to the same people - a for-profit company which cannot provide culturally safe or equivalent healthcare
The Vic prison health system needs urgent overhaul now!
@thevalsmob @VACCHO_org
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"I would love more people to get behind the prison abolition movement...I've tried to show in my evidence that there is no good achieved in prisons...It is a person's own doing that leads to any success they've achieved....the achievement is theirs," Aunty Vickie says #yoorrook
Don't miss "Ferguson Rises" with the Director Mobolaji Olambiwonnu & Michael Brown Snr in attendance this Sunday.
There will be a panel after moderated by Kimberley Benjamin with special guest speakers Meriki Onus & Tarneen Onus. Ticket details here: https://t.co/DIEUv3GeEN
Kids in cages are brutalised every day as we remain silent
Our silence is violence
Prisons kill & torture kids & this is why we must abolish all cages
We must not allow another prison to be built #endtoxicprisons @AnnastaciaMP @camerondickqld#qldpol
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Police commissioner & g’ment can’t keep covering up racial gendered violence by saying it doesn’t exist
How cops speak about Aboriginal women 👇🏾
…jokes made that a female Indigenous detainee “won’t give you a fucking blowjob here”
#qldpol#racism
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Interrupting Intimate Partner Violence: A Guide for Community Responses Without Police
Carceral responses are not needed in our communities. #defundthepolice
Thanks @JusticeTeamsNet
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Check out the @HNPcoalition Homes Not Prisons Campaign 📻 Series airing on @3CR Thursdays from Midday ♥️🔥📣
3CR 855AM | 3CR DIGITAL | https://t.co/sGKFKaTCjX | APP: https://t.co/n2bgdsebnC
ANNOUNCEMENT 🖤🖤🖤
12 months from today Sisters Inside’s 10th International Conference commences in Meanjin 🖤💛♥️
Register your interest now on our website & start planning your attendance to #freeher#abolitionfeminismnow
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Constance Watcho was highly visible when the cops wanted to criminalize her but when she was disappeared she was invisible to police. #defundthepolice#MMIW #315
WE WANT ANSWERS NOW
WE CANT LIVE WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT HAPPENED TO HER Tarita Fisher