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Rudi Maxwell and Belad Al-karkhey

Too many First Nations deaths in custody: independents

Lidia Thorpe and other crossbench MPs want the commission recommendations to be implemented. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Too many First Nations children are being removed from their families and too many Indigenous people are dying in custody, according to federal crossbench MPs.

The group, organised by Senator Lidia Thorpe, has called on the Labor government to implement all the recommendations from the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the 1997 Bringing Them Home report on the Stolen Generations.

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