In a powerful speech, Indigenous Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy read out the circumstances of 31 Aboriginal deaths in custody between 2017 and March 2019. Indigenous Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy (pictured) made a powerful speech to the Australian Senate on Wednesday afternoon about Aboriginal deaths in custodyThe senator read out the circumstances of 31 Indigenous deaths in custody between 2017 and March 2019. Senator McCarthy said up to 439 Indigenous people had died since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Senator McCarthy became emotional as she finished her speech and was consoled by her fellow Labor senators. Senator McCarthy said the widespread Black Lives Matter protests honoured the Aboriginal people who died in custody.

Source: Daily Mail June 17, 2020 06:43 UTC