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Ruby Langford Ginibi

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‘Why is it that our people are still dying today in police custody? The great white legal system hasn’t worked out what to do about this terrible situation, but it all points to the bad treatment of our people when they are incarcerated in prisons. Black people have always been on the other end of the policeman’s boot…THE KILLING TIMES ARE STILL WITH US.’

Ruby Langford Ginibi

My Bundjalung People (University of Queensland Press 1994, 44).

Image: “Ruby Langford Ginibi’s protest on 26th January 1988 at Mrs MacQuarie’s Chair in the Domain, the Bicentennial Year 1988.”  Photo: Lisa Bellear.


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This research was primarily supported under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme.

Partial funding was received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Partnership Development Grants scheme.

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