NT government announced a proposed racism review into the NT Police Force has been scrapped

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Amid calls for an independent investigation into the death in custody of a Warlpiri man in Alice Springs last month, the government says it has cut funding for a separate independent review into systemic racism within Northern Territory police. Announced during a coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker in 2019, budget estimates heard a government-wide review of systemic racism has stalled, with an independent review of police shelved altogether.

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00:00A small group with a big message for the government.

00:06We've had many black deaths in custody and we do not trust the Northern Territory Government.

00:11Armed with 750 letters from Territorians, they want independent oversight of police

00:17and the investigation into the death of Koemanjai White.

00:20It comes two years after a government-wide review of systemic racism was announced

00:25at the inquest of a different death in custody.

00:28We need to accept that systemic racism exists in systems that are built with the history

00:34that we have in the Northern Territory and we need to make sure that we eliminate it.

00:37But it's been revealed today police will not be included in the review,

00:41scrapped as part of $2 million in budget cuts by the NT government.

00:45The $300,000 that was committed by the previous government to the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner

00:52to do a review into that police was not able to be given to them.

00:59Instead, a review will be wrapped into a new anti-racism strategy being developed by the force.

01:05To your knowledge, police will be reviewing police around racism in the police force?

01:11To my knowledge, there's an anti-racism strategy that police are working on.

01:20Estimates also heard from the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner,

01:23who is supposed to oversee the review into police racism.

01:26He raised concerns over the government's plans to reinstate protections for religious groups,

01:31saying the changes would water down the country's strongest anti-discrimination laws.

01:36Did it?

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01:46Now I'm done with recognition as well as the regional council stub is an idea of anti-racism to

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