Spotlight: Inside the Tanya Day inquest
Jun 8, 2020 • 17m 19s
As the world protests the killing of George Floyd, Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist Amy McQuire confronts Australia’s national silence on black deaths in custody.
Spotlight: Inside the Tanya Day inquest
• Jun 8, 2020
Spotlight: Inside the Tanya Day inquest
Tanya Day was a 55-year-old Yorta Yorta woman who died in police custody. In this archive episode, Madeline Hayman-Reber covers the inquest that asked whether systemic racism contributed to her death.
Guest: NITV journalist Madeline Hayman-Reber.
Background reading:
Inquest into Tanya Day’s death in custody in The Saturday Paper
The Saturday Paper
The Monthly
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