Aboriginal deaths in custody

Eligibility - Queensland residents
Principal Petitioner:
Sam Watson
18 Turnmill Street
MACGREGOR QLD 4109
Total Signatures - 127
Sponsoring Member: Jason O'Brien MP
Posting Date: 14/4/2010
Tabled Date: 14/4/2010
Responded By: Hon Neil Roberts MP on 19/5/2010
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
The petition of citizens of Queensland draws to the attention of the House the rise in Aboriginal deaths in custody since 1991.Your petitioners therefore request the House to convene an urgent and wide ranging Royal Commission into the arrest rates of Aboriginal people, the imprisonment rates of Aboriginal people and the deaths in custody of Aboriginal people.