Email shared by Northern Territory referred to corruption watchdog

A board game where every move lands you in jail. Branded Black Monopoly and circulated among members of the NT police’s Territory Response Group in 2008, according to reports published in the Australian newspaper today. The image confronting but unsurprising for Larakia woman Malilma May this merely represents the realities of how Indigenous people feel towards police. And they’re very justified. Reality of feeling unsafe with police and police practices and the justice system in this country. The NT Police commissioners referred the image to the territory’s corruption watchdog. Police in Icaka jointly investigating allegations of widespread racism within the police force following evidence given by former constable Zachary Rolf during an inquest into the death of Kuman Jai Walker. He fatally shot in 2019. I expect we’ll see more and we’ve called for people to come forward with any information I may have. So I imagine they’ll that that the more information or emails or some material will come out in due course. That was then. I absolutely would hope that things have changed considerably in the ensuring 16 years. It’s the latest racist material to reportedly surface from inside NT police. The corruption watchdogs already branded this so-called Nuggeta award allegedly circulated amongst the same team of officers in 2013 as racist. This justice advocate regularly represents Aboriginal clients bringing racism cases against police, he says. They’re let down by a system where officers investigate their own. I think it’s well overdue that the NT moves to an independent oversight model such as exists in Ireland, which has been proven to be incredibly effective, calls for change for Australia’s most incarcerated population.