On Australia Day last, an Aboriginal Elder was slowly boiled to death in the back of a van where the inside temperature was 56 degrees.

He had no water, food, toilet or air conditioning,and incurred third degree burns from the heat of the metal floor, before he died a slow and agonizing death whilst being transported the 400k’s to Kalgoorlie.

The van was driven by two security guards who had the air-conditioning turned on in the front of the van.

After the man’s death,The CEO of the Company who supplied the van to the WA Dept of Corrective Services,, knelt in the grass and said he was sorry to the Aboriginal man’s family.

The Minister for Corrective Services cried on TV, and said she had been aware of the problem for some time, but nobody in the Cabinet seemed interested.

The grieving family of the dead Aboriginal man have asked for Justice.

Justice for this man’s family, would be the Minister for Corrective Services, and the CEO of the Company employed by the WA Government to provide the vans,be placed in the back of the same van, and driven from Laverton to Kalgoorlie in forty degree heat with no water,food or breaks for toileting, and no means of communicating with the guards in the front of the van.

If by chance they survive the trip,the Minister would then be deemed fit to serve in Government, , and the Owner of the van Company,would be fit to tender for transportation of prisoners.

If they don’t survive, the family of the dead Aboriginal man could then kneel in the grass, and say sorry to their families.

That would be Justice wouldn’t it ?

Are we are a Racist Nation?

Well as long as incidents like this keep happening, I’d say it will be a long, long time before our Indigenous people are convinced that we are not, and we don’t need anyone from overseas to tell us that.

And someone should not have to die before Federal Ministers act.