Who is popular today?

While there is currently a significant focus on alleged police brutality against indigenous people, Centre for Independent Studies commentator Jacinta Price says the majority of aboriginal deaths occur “at the hands of other aboriginal people".

After “everyone has come together to face a common enemy” in the form of COVID-19, protesters are demonstrating a “bloodthirsty” desire for “racial divide and civil unrest”.

She said the protests were a “distraction” from the real issue of indigenous lives being “taken outside of custody”.

Looking at indigenous crime in 2018, Ms Price said reports indicate 85 percent of offences were perpetrated either by the victim’s partner or a close family member.

“If you are serious about minimising incarceration rates then you have to recognise that the majority of those incarcerated are incarcerated for acts of violence against their own loved ones,” she told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“I am sick to death of selective outrage and people only wanting to protest and care about the black lives that are lost in custody”.

Ms Price said there has been growing resentment against police officers for years, “but no growing resentment toward the perpetrators within our own communities who are causing far more destruction toward our people than what our police officers are doing”.

She pointed out “a large portion of the police force are indigenous themselves” and many indigenous perpetrators were often given “more lenient sentences” because authorities did not want to appear racist.