Greens MLC David Shoebridge recently stood in front of a crowd
of protesters calling out the Australian government for failing our
Indigenous community. The activists held placards reading
'Black Lives Matter' as they stood in solidarity for the
victims of police brutality.
Australia's Reconciliation History
It has been almost 32 years since the Australian government
launched the landmark Royal Commission into Indigenous Deaths in
Custody.
Roughly ten years later, the Bringing Them Home Report
was published.
Fast forward another 11 years, Australians all over the country
gathered around their television sets anxiously waiting for Kevin
Rudd's national apology.
Yet after all of this, why is it today that hundreds marched
through the streets of Sydney demanding justice for the families of
the indigenous men and women who have died in the hands of our
authorities?
