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15/04/2026

Update on Banksia Hill and Unit 18 Class Actions

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27/01/2026

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22/11/2024

An ICAC investigation into racism within the Northern Territory Police Force has handed down it’s findings, finding no evidence of racism beyond 2015.

The investigation uncovered racist mock ‘awards’, some of which it deemed too “offensive” to make public, but concluded there was no use in further investigating the matter.

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Aboriginal police officers are taking legal action against the NT government over decades of unequal pay and racist behaviour by fellow cops, saying they have been smeared as ‘lazy and useless’.

21/11/2024

An investigation into racism within the Northern Territory Police Force, which previously uncovered racist awards deemed too “offensive” for public release, has found no further evidence of racist behaviour in the force since 2015 and concluded the matter be closed..

Aboriginal police officers are taking legal action against the NT government over decades of unequal pay and racist behaviour by fellow cops, saying they have been smeared as ‘lazy and useless’.

21/11/2024

An ICAC investigation into whether awards handed out by the elite Territory Response Group were racist has found no admissible evidence against any of the five named police officers.

Aboriginal police officers are taking legal action against the NT government over decades of unequal pay and racist behaviour by fellow cops, saying they have been smeared as ‘lazy and useless’.

20/11/2024

The latest ICAC investigation report into the TRG officers who swore false statements to the court provides us with perhaps the best example yet of how those in positions of power in the Territory set up a supposedly independent investigation to appear independent, while secretly ensuring its predetermined outcomes fall in their favour.

Aboriginal police officers are taking legal action against the NT government over decades of unequal pay and racist behaviour by fellow cops, saying they have been smeared as ‘lazy and useless’.

20/11/2024

A lawyer representing three Aboriginal police officers in a human rights complaint against the Northern Territory Police Force has slammed an investigation into racism within the force as “flawed” and “an attempt to wipe the slate clean”.

Aboriginal police officers are taking legal action against the NT government over decades of unequal pay and racist behaviour by fellow cops, saying they have been smeared as ‘lazy and useless’.

27/02/2024

Leading Indigenous justice advocates say the assault of a child in Unit 18 by a much larger and older prison guard captured on CCTV footage drives home the urgent need for immediate and long-term change to WA’s justice system.

The video, shot during a riot in the notorious Unit 18 facility – a stand-alone youth wing in a Perth maximum security adult prison – shows 52 year-old Daniel Travis Ratten kneeing a handcuffed 16 year-old boy in the torso.

The assault of a child in Unit 18 by a much larger and older prison guard captured on CCTV footage drives home the urgent need for immediate and long-term change to WA's justice system.

26/02/2024

It’s a confronting moment captured on camera — a handcuffed 16-year-old boy is kneed in the torso by a veteran prison guard much bigger and older than him.

That single moment resulted in the guard, Daniel Travis Ratten, 52, being fined $5,000 and given a spent conviction.

It's a confronting moment captured on camera — a handcuffed 16-year-old boy is kneed in the torso by a veteran prison guard much bigger and older than him.

25/02/2024

Footage from 2022 of Banksia Hill riot squad using force on a 16-year-old boy has been released, highlighting yet another “unacceptable and outrageous case of child abuse” and a youth justice system that is “fundamentally broken”, says Amnesty International.

Footage from 2022 of Banksia Hill riot squad using force on a 16-year-old boy has been released, highlighting yet another "unacceptable and outrageous case of child abuse"