Mr Ward’s case painfully instantiates how the material conditions of remote Australia, with its colonial infrastructure, entrenched disregard for Aboriginal lives and racially marked systems of policing entwine with neoliberal practices of management to lead his dying, or being made to die, in the custody of the state.
1910: Skull Creek Massacre
1969: Raymond Watson
1976: ‘Skull Creek Incident’
1983: Robert Anderson
1985: Kim Pollack
1985: Milton Wells
1987: Bernard McGrath
2016: Elijah Doughty
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