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[Opinion] A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business | Julianne Schultz (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by brisk@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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People are not “placed” on the floor – that is what you do with bags, boxes and rubbish. But that was the word used by the Northern Territory police to describe the sequence of events to the media. Tragically, painfully, I think it says a lot.

Almost a million more people voted yes in the referendum than voted for the Labor party in the recent election. The combined Liberal National party vote was about half the no vote. While the majority rejected the voice proposal because they didn’t know, didn’t care or thought it was unfair, this cannot be mapped on to the political snapshot that the election provided. The referendum was not a proxy election. The door to meaningful, symbolic and practical recognition can and must be opened again.

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[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Death during restraint is a common and well documented issue. There is training on how to appropriately restrain someone whilst offering minimal risk to all parties involved. A huge part of it is not squashing the person being restrained - positional asphyxia.