00:00After the death of Kuminjai White in the Red Centre sparked national calls for an independent
00:08investigation.
00:13Concerns are growing, the NT can't afford to wait for any probe.
00:17The only way we expect that there will be change is if we have a forum where all the
00:23parties come together and we have an emergency intervention into what's happening in the
00:28territory.
00:29The second Aboriginal man has now died in police custody in a fortnight, a senior man
00:34from Wadair and a community leader.
00:37With another tightening of bail restrictions, half of all prisoners are now on remand, less
00:42than a year since a historic apology to Indigenous Territorians.
00:47A warning the new measures are watering down the presumption of innocence.
00:50They're seeing their family, their sons, their daughters, their husbands, their wives being
00:56locked up and held on remand for long periods of time. So we're getting into a situation
01:02where Aboriginal people in the Territory are fearful of police.
01:06Nadja wants federal representatives to join NT officials and Indigenous leaders in finding
01:12a solution. The latest in a series of organisations urging federal authorities to intervene.
01:18Both the chairs of the NT's two largest Aboriginal land councils have also described a breakdown
01:24in the relationship between Indigenous people and the new NT government. The Central Land Council
01:29is now calling on the Commonwealth to withhold funding to the NT until it sets up a police conduct
01:36commission. The NT government doubling down. Following extensive consultation we will continue
01:42progressing justice reforms that put the rights of victims before offenders. We continue to back
01:48our police and are proud to see officers serving and protecting their own communities. The Federal
01:54Minister for Indigenous Australians didn't respond to a request for comment before deadline.
01:59minister for Indigenous Australians has invited us to support травme,
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