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Three decades of recommendations. Still counting the dead.

It has been 35 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody delivered 339 recommendations. 33 Indigenous Australians died in custody last year — the highest number in a single year on record.

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33
Indigenous deaths in custody, 2024–25 — the highest number in a single year on record.
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology, SR57, Dec 2025
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Recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in April 1991. 35 years ago this month.
Source: Royal Commission final report, 1991
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~90%
of NT detainees are Aboriginal, despite making up around 30% of the Territory population.
Source: NT Corrections / ABS, 2025
"The recommendations were not aspirational. They were the floor. A generation later, we are still below it."
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