Indiginous inequality in spotlight as Australia faces reckoning on race

Campaigners frustrated that it took an African American man's death to bring their own plight into focus

Australia's prime minister took his time before weighing in on the country's Black Lives Matter movement. Five days after tens of thousands of people joined protests over Indigenous deaths in custody, Scott Morrison spoke out on Thursday, wondering aloud on a right-leaning radio station whether something that had started with a fair point" had lost its way.

I think we've also got to respect our history as well," he said. And this is not a licence for people to just go nuts on this stuff."