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Exclusive: Mother and partner of First Nations woman argue for the right to bail and request reforms be named Poccum’s Law in her honour
The family of First Nations woman Veronica Nelson, who died while on remand in a Victorian maximum security prison, have outlined what they want the state’s new bail laws to look like and asked that they are named “Poccum’s Law” in her honour.
The Victorian government has committed to reforming the Bail Act after a damning coroner’s report into the proud Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman’s death found it was “incompatible” with the state’s charter of human rights and discriminatory towards First Nations people.
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