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According to experts, specialist police stations (such as women’s police stations) will need to be appropriately staffed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous officers trained to work from both gender and culturally sensitive perspectives. Dean Lewins/AAP

February 23, 2022

Women’s police stations in Australia: would they work for ‘all’ women?

Amanda Porter, The University of Melbourne; Ann Louise Deslandes, University of Sydney; Crystal McKinnon, RMIT University, and Marlene Longbottom, University of Wollongong

Establishing specialist women’s police stations has been suggested as a solution to violence against women in Australia. However research does not cover racial and gender inclusion in this policing.

The Royal Commission recommends that all media organisations should be encouraged to develop codes and policies relating to the presentation of Aboriginal issues. Biance De Marchi/AAP

April 20, 2021

Not criminals or passive victims: media need to reframe their representation of Aboriginal deaths in custody

Amanda Porter, The University of Melbourne and Eddie Cubillo, The University of Melbourne

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody made recommendations to ensure ethical reporting of these deaths. Despite this, harmful and inaccurate reporting still abounds.

Protestors in Perth call for an independent investigation into Ms Dhu’s death. AAP/Jesse Roberts

April 14, 2016

Why we should honour the humanity of every person who dies in custody

Amanda Porter, University of Technology Sydney

The statistics used to discuss deaths in custody can make us lose sight of the fact that it’s people we’re talking about. People with families and friends, who died prematurely – and often brutally.

Indigenous young people are 25 times more likely to be detained than non-Indigenous young people. AAP/Jesse Roberts

June 15, 2015

‘Tough on crime’ is creating a lost generation of Indigenous youth

Amanda Porter, University of Technology Sydney

A new generation of Indigenous youth is being separated from their families and culture – this time by the force of criminal law that ignores the proven alternative of community-based justice.

French comedian Dieudonné has just been charged as an ‘apologist for terrorism’ for his Facebook posting ‘Je me sens Charlie Coulibaly’ (I feel I am Charlie Coulibaly). EPA/Didier Jouret

January 15, 2015

Speech in France is not so free as Section 18C critics would have it

Amanda Porter, University of Technology Sydney

Recent commentary about the so-called “French” idea of free speech is fuelling confusion and misinformation in the debate about Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 in Australia. Human Rights…

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