1 The complete poem and information on indigenous deaths in custody can be found on the West Australian Deaths in Custody Watch Committee website at http://www.omen.com.au/~dicwc/
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2 According to Aboriginal tradition the names of those recently dead may not be spoken.
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3 ‘Jailings that shame Australians’, Sunday Age (19 March 2000), p. 7.
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4 William Jonas, ‘Mandatory training in crime and despair’, Australian (16 February 2000), p. 13.
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5 Mumia Abu Jamal, Live from Death Row (New York, Avon Books, 1996), p. 41.
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6 Angela Davis, ‘Racialised punishment and prison abolition’, The Angela Davis Reader, ed. Joy James (Oxford, Blackwell, 1998), p. 97.
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See also, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing Them Home: report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and their Families (Canberra, Sterling Press, 1997).
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8 Catherine Munro, ‘What’s the point? asks magistrate’, Age (17 February 2000), p. 6.
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9 Jonas, op. cit.
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10 Davis, ‘Race and criminalization: Black Americans and the punishment industry’, The Angela Davis Reader, op. cit., p. 62.
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11 Top End Women’s Legal Service Submission to Senate Inquiry into Mandatory Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders, February 2000. Thanks to Fiona Hussin for giving me this information.
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12 Marcia Langton, ‘Dumb politics wins the day’, The Sydney Morning Herald (20 March 2000).
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and S. Perera, ‘The level playing field: Hansonism, globalisation, racism’, Race & Class (Vol. 40, nos 2-3, 1998), pp. 199-208.
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14 Penelope Debelle, ‘Revealed: $100m bill for outback Gulag’, Sunday Age (26 March 2000).
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15 Davis, ‘Race and criminalization’, op. cit., p. 62.
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1 Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan, Deconstructing Disney (London, Pluto1999), pp. 81, 152.
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2 See my ‘Lord Greystoke and darkest Africa: the politics of the Tarzan stories’, Race & Class (Vol. XXVIII, no. 2 Autumn 1986).
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3 Wayne Ellwood, ‘Inside the Disney dream machine’, The New Internationalist (No. 308, December 1998), p. 10.
