Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
The Royal Commission was announced in 1987. It produced a number of reports, including individual reports for each death investigated, an Interim Report (December 1988), and the final report (1991).
The National Archives’ guide Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: The Royal Commission and its Records, 1987–1991, describes all the records of the Royal Commission.
House of Representatives, Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Doing Time - Time For Doing: Indigenous youth in the criminal justice system (Report of the Inquiry into the high level of involvement of Indigenous juveniles and young adults in the criminal justice system, 20 June 2011).
See also Senate, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, References Committee, HEALING: A Legacy of Generations (Report on the Stolen Generation Inquiry, 2000). This is the report of the Inquiry into the Federal Government's Implementation of the Recommendations Made by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Bringing Them Home.
See Australian Human Rights Commission, Indigenous Deaths in Custody Inquiry, Indigenous Deaths in Custody 1989-1996. This Report examines the deaths of Indigenous people in custody since the Royal Commission ceased investigating deaths in May 1989.
