". . . it can be clearly seen that colonisation has been consolidated in this State through aspects of violence, and by the design and implementation of government policies and legislation. What becomes most apparent, is the right of government to create institutional control over Aboriginal peoples without too much emphasis being placed upon Aboriginal legal, social and cultural requirements. This control, combined with powerful interest groups and representatives from law enforcement agencies, ultimately denied Aboriginal people any form of real empowerment." P. Dodson, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, 1991.
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