A recent article in The Guardian ‘doesn’t quite match the headline’

Sky news host Paul Murray says The Guardian is “chief among those” trying to push the narrative that Australia’s equivalent of George Floyd is the indigenous deaths in custody.

The Guardian on Thursday published an article with the headline, “Third Aboriginal death in WA custody in two months as man dies in Roebourne prison.”

“Tragically, for this man’s family, he decided to take his own life, and as best as we understand there was no interaction with the guards,” Mr Murray.

“I have no doubt that the mental health impacts of being in jail is not pleasant for anyone regardless of their cultural backgrounds, regardless of whether they are indigenous or non indigenous to the country”.

The story in The Guardian continues to say, “thirteen Aboriginal prisoners and 29 non-Aboriginal prisoners have died in custody since July 2017, according to figures provided by the justice department.”

“The Aboriginal deaths included three suicides, one murder and one case where authorities were unable to determine whether the cause was natural. The remaining eight were from natural causes,” it continued.

Mr Murray said there was “a whole group of people only informed by the headlines which they read.”

He added, “there are people who are trying to pull apart the entire society based on the headlines they read.”

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32 COMMENTS

  1. Western Australia has one of the best prison systems in the world most humane I was in jail in WA I know. If you watch Australia’s hardest prisons and even a criminal from overseas states how good the jails are in Australia compared to the rest of the world on that show

  2. My personal observation is the first five seconds of what's read is taken as gospel rather a tip of an iceberg . It's called an assumption and an attention span of a generation today appears more typical each day

  3. Lucky for Sydneysiders! Down in Melbourne – when the Victoria Police aren't out personally running errands on the Chairman's behalf – they're behaving like the Guardian's paramilitary-wing!

  4. Yep, everyone reacts to headlines.

    Thats why when you read such things, or see a headline, step back, and try to think what it really could mean. Most people probably are not taking a step back, and are doing what the media wants and just accepts the words, and projects into them, what there preconceived ideas are.

  5. I simply call it Fake News ! Aussies wake up ! You have the same Mass Media communists in your country! Corona is a flew! Nothing else ! Where are the millions of death people worldwide to justify to call it a Pandemic ? By the way the slaughter from Ethyopia who is heading the WHO changed the terminus Pandemic within the last ten years twice to make it more suitable for Bill Gates and his vaccine ! It is gen manipulated and will let you die sooner ! Come on Aussies you were once the prisoner island sorry continent and now you want to support slavery ? You have to defend modern civilised society ! And the constistunal rights of the free ! Sorry for my bad english ! I am german but we will have more than 1 million people in Berlin on the 1st. of August protesting against the biggest lie in human history ! We all want our normal live back ! Fuck the politicans who are destroying our existence ! By the way " Australia " is one of my favourite movies ! I have been in your country 30 years ago ! Lovely place cigarrettes drinks cheap girls good looking and the mates just awesome ! Keep your culture!

  6. United we stand divided we fall….. It's all a show , covid , BLM …… What U need to ask yourself is , what is the really agenda? 5 years from now , people will be asking WTF happened to the world…… The answer it is " what we let happen" because we to busy fighting with , against and amongst ourselves….. There are many questions that should and need to be asked of the governments that run this world….. Lies and games is all we get……..

  7. Why are people so upset about an adult taking their own life (in prison, jumping off The Gap or with a needle of heroin in their arm); but champion the "bravery" of a woman, when that woman wants to take the life of an innocent unborn child?

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