The current frenzy around the Alice Springs crime wave risks risks repeating the same moral panics and deployment of top-down policies which disempower First Nations people, write Thalia Anthony and Vanessa Napaltjari Davis.
Thalia Anthony
This month marks 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody tabled its national report.
With five volumes of research, investigative accounts of 99 deaths in custody, and 339 recommendations, the report was meant to be a blueprint for reducing the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous Australians and deaths in custody.
But a quarter of a century later, the situation is actually worse.
The impetus