Published: October 02, 2018
Roebourne has been beset by poverty, unemployment and alcoholism. But its Indigenous community is taking control of its story
Just outside Roebourne – on the flat plains of the Ngurin river, where the landscape turns violet in the dying sun – sits the regional prison. The jail, so close by, is a reminder of the fraught history of this Aboriginal town.
It was here in Roebourne where John Pat, aged just 16, died in 1983 after being taking into custody, shining a spotlight on police brutality in Indigenous communities. It is here where hundreds of men and women are incarcerated.
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