Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Regional Report of Inquiry In Queensland

INTRODUCTION SYNOPSIS ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER POPULATION STATISTICS IN QUEENSLAND CHAPTER 1: AN ANALYSIS OF THE DEATHS, THEIR CAUSES AND THE ISSUE OF AVOIDABILITY 1.1.1 Deaths in Custody 1.1.2 Self-inflicted Deaths 1.2 THE AVOIDABILITY OF DEATH CHAPTER 2: GENERAL SUMMATION OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DECEASED 2.1 PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS OF THE DECEASED 2.2 SUMMARY: HISTORY, MARGINALISATION AND DISEMPOWERMENT CHAPTER 3: POST-DEATH INVESTIGATIONS 3.1.1 The Ideal Investigation 3.1.2 Police Investigations in Queensland 3.1.3 What I Found 3.2 POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS 3.3 CORONIAL INVESTIGATIONS APPENDICES Appendix l(a): THE ABORIGINALS IN COLONIAL SOCIETY, 1840-1897 Appendix l(b): RACE RELATIONS IN QUEENSLAND 1897-1971 APPENDIX 2: QUEENSLAND ABORIGINAL CULTURES AND THE DEATHS IN CUSTODY VICTIMS REFERENCES