Published: December 05, 2018
Indigenous woman Tanya Day was arrested and charged with public drunkenness before death at Castlemaine police station
The Andrews government has been told to abolish outdated laws criminalising public drunkenness at a preliminary hearing into the death in custody of Aboriginal woman Tanya Day.
Coroner Kate English told Day’s family on Thursday that she had told the attorney general, Jill Hennessy, that she intended to propose Victoria abolish the law, an action that has been regularly recommended in legal reviews dating back to the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991.
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