Not one more Indigenous family should experience the pain of their loved one dying in custody, a protest outside a Brisbane prison has heard.
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"We don't want another death in custody," Kylie Hill told the Seven Network outside the Brisbane Correctional Centre in Wacol on Saturday.
"We don't need to go through this, no family needs to go through this.
"It's painful."
Ms Hill was among the small crowd who on Saturday marched outside the prison calling for justice and action to stop Indigenous Australians dying in custody.
It comes after a march outside state parliament this week and a protest involving 30,000 people through inner-city Brisbane earlier this month.
"People need to listen, the government needs to listen," Ms Hill said.
"They don't want their kids dead and we don't want our kids dead.
"Actions speak louder than words."
At least 432 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody in Australia since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report in 1991.
"We're looking for solutions," Paul Butterworth told Seven. "We don't want this stuff happening anymore.
"We're losing kids left, right and centre, we're losing people."
Mr Butterworth said the issue had been talked about for years but he wants that to lead to real action.
"It's just passed back and forth across the table, you change government and it's passed on to the next one, it's passing the buck.
"What we need to see is action.
"It can't go any further."
The state's Human Rights Commissioner Scott McDougall has urged Australian governments to actively work with Indigenous communities in a "power-sharing" way."
Earlier this month he described the disproportionate numbers of Aboriginal children, women and men detained in the criminal justice system as scandalous, and the result of past policies of dispossession and protection.
Australian Associated Press
