Tauto Sansbury wins the NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award

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Image: NAIDOC Week 2012 – Schools Students’ Artwork Exhibition by Mosman Library on Flickr.

Lifelong Indigenous campaigner Tauto Sansbury has been awarded the NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award to close the gap in Australia. He’s been a vocal force against high indigenous incarceration rates and worked as the chair of the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee for over ten years, during which he attended to 18 deaths in custody. Tauto Sansbury describes his life of advocacy as a battle and we talked to him about the ups and downs.

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