Latoya Aroha Rule – The Conversation

Leetona Dungay, the mother of the late David Dungay Jr, announces she will go to the United Nations to hold the federal and NSW Government to account for their failure to protect the right to life of David Dungay Jr. and for their failure to take action to stop First Nations deaths in custody. Dan Himbrechts/AAP

August 30, 2021

Incarceration Nation exposes the racist foundations of policing and imprisonment in Australia, but at what cost?

Latoya Aroha Rule, University of Technology Sydney; Lilly Brown, The University of Melbourne, and Natalie Ironfield, The University of Melbourne

Incarceration Nation has the potential to shake the very core of your understanding of what it means to be Blak on this continent.

Many of the royal commission’s recommendations concerning families primarily regard the circumstances of their loved one’s death rather than inclusion in decision-making processes. Supplied by Latoya Aroha Rule

April 28, 2021

The families of Indigenous people who die in custody need a say in what happens next

Latoya Aroha Rule, University of Technology Sydney and Larissa Behrendt, University of Technology Sydney

The government continues to refuse collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families on addressing Aboriginal deaths in custody.

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