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Public intoxication is illegal in every jurisdiction in Australia. Shutterstock

December 17, 2019

Be careful where you drink your beer this summer. Here’s what the law says about public drunkenness

Rick Sarre, University of South Australia

At what point does good-natured inebriation become criminally-tinged intoxication?

Family members of Tanya Day march to the Coroners Court after a smoking ceremony. Day’s inquest will consider if systemic racism was a factor in her death in custody. David Crosling/AAP

August 28, 2019

Aboriginal woman Tanya Day died in custody. Now an inquest is investigating if systemic racism played a role

Alison Whittaker, University of Technology Sydney

Systemic racism creates the architecture around which other forms of racism are enabled, supported and justified.

The family of Rebecca Maher, an Aboriginal woman who died in custody in 2016, believed access to a custody notification service would have been an important check in the absence of police care. Bianca De Marchi/AAP

August 27, 2019

Legal and welfare checks should be extended to save Aboriginal lives in custody

Thalia Anthony, University of Technology Sydney and Alison Whittaker, University of Technology Sydney

Tanya Day, Ms Dhu and Rebecca Maher are among the 400 people who have died in custody more than 25 years since the Royal Commission. How could those deaths have been avoided?

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Alison Whittaker
Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
Rick Sarre
Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University
Thalia Anthony
Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney

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