Published: August 28, 2018
Only WA and NT have agreed to a custody notification service similar to that in place in NSW, despite offer of federal funding
The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, says he is “disappointed” that only two of Australia’s states and territories have accepted the federal government’s offer to fund a lifesaving custody notification service, two years after he made the offer.
Western Australia and the Northern Territory have agreed to create the custody notification service (CNS), a 24-hour legal advice and RU OK phone line for Aboriginal people taken into police custody.
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