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Ms. Dhu (MMIW)

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🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, a 22-year-old woman was taken into custody for unpaid fines in Western Australia. Less than 48 hours later, she was dead. It took 6 years and a lot of work on the part of her family to even make a dent in the policies that led to her death. But will these changes be enough?

Read more on the societal issues surrounding Ms. Dhu’s death

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320438109_Justice_for_Ms_Dhu_Accounting_for_Indigenous_Deaths_in_Custody_in_Australia

Learn more about confronting your own racism

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/

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0:00.0

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0:45.3

In 2014 a 22 year old woman was taken into custody for unpaid fines in western Australia.

1:03.6

Less than 48 hours later she was dead. It took six years and a lot of work on the part of her family

1:10.0

to even make a dent in the policies that led to her death. But will these changes be enough?

1:17.8

I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines.

1:28.1

Welcome to August's third Thursday episode. Every third Thursday in 2020 we will explore

1:34.8

another case of a missing or murdered indigenous woman or girl and we are back in Australia this month.

1:42.4

I want to thank Brooke for recommending this one to me. This case had a full inquest so we are not

1:49.6

lacking in information or in detail here. The way we often come up against these things.

1:56.9

In fact most of the details in this episode have come from the coroner's report.

2:03.7

In a previous episode where I discussed the death of an aboriginal Australian woman I mentioned

2:10.8

the practice of name avoidance after someone's death. It didn't apply there but it does apply here

2:18.0

so let's talk about it. This is not a current practice for all tribes but it used to be much more

2:26.8

widespread pre colonization. Though less common today many aboriginal Australians and Tories

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