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Article: WA: Authorities show scant respect for elder's high standing
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- June 19, 2009
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AAP General News (Australia)
06-19-2009
WA: Authorities show scant respect for elder's high standing
By Warwick Stanley
PERTH, June 19 AAP - On January 27 last year, on a scorching day in the WA outback,
a man lay dying in the back of a prison van as the temperature soared past 50 degrees
celsius.
His body temperature had climbed towards a lethal 42 degrees - more than five degrees
above normal - after the van's air conditioning failed.
And he couldn't be revived after being transferred from Laverton, about 600km south-west
of his home town of Warburton, to face court in the Goldfields centre of Kalgoorlie.
The 46-year-old Aboriginal elder, known only as Mr Ward because of cultural ...