And of course, these are not the only Indigenous people who have died while in police and government custody (a national tragedy still occurring) (Via AAP) The hundreds of indigenous men and boys who died while imprisoned on WA’s Rottnest Island will be commemorated in a bid towards healing and reconciling the past. Elder Farley Garlett said on Tuesday the Whadjuk people would lead the WA government project, aimed at reconciling the history of indigenous captivity on the island off the coast of Fremantle. “It is a responsibility we take up in the spirit of healing and moving forward,” he said. Fellow elder Neville Collard said it was an important issue for indigenous people and believed it was time to work with the West Australian government to recognise the island’s history. The Wadjemup Project, named after the Noongar name for Rottnest Island, will honour almost 400 indigenous men and boys who were buried there in unmarked graves between 1838 and 1931. During those years, more than 4000 indigenous men and boys from across WA were sent to the island, imprisoned and used as forced labour. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt said there had been years of research and community consultation about the recognition of those prisoners. “Ensuring the history of Aboriginal people on the island is recognised is imperative for reconciliation,” he said. “It will begin the healing process of historic and intergenerational trauma from the colonisation of Aboriginal people.” Also worth paying attention to: In these extraordinary times, the Guardian’s editorial independence has never been more important. Because no one sets our agenda, or edits our editor, we can keep delivering quality, trustworthy, fact-checked journalism each and every day. Free from commercial or political bias, we can report fearlessly on world events and challenge those in power. Your support protects the Guardian’s independence. We believe every one of us deserves equal access to accurate news and calm explanation. No matter how unpredictable the future feels, we will remain with you, delivering high quality news so we can all make critical decisions about our lives, health and security – based on fact, not fiction. Support the Guardian from as little as $1 – and it only takes a minute. Thank you. Netball Australia has officially cancelled its Australian Netball League season. That’s because of financial pressures, plus inconsistent training and matches in the different states and territories. The 2020 Super Netball season is due to start on 1 August. An update: Take the silver linings where you can get them. Queensland"s deputy premier apologises to Nathan Turner"s family From AAP: Queensland’s deputy premier has apologised to the grieving family of a Blackwater man who was wrongly identified as having coronavirus. Steven Miles says he’s sorry for the suffering of Nathan Turner’s family and his partner, who has had to grieve his death in isolation. Turner initially tested positive for coronavirus after his death last week, but subsequent tests have confirmed he was not infected. Miles has defended the government’s response, saying it had to put Blackwater on alert and test widely after the former miner’s initial positive test. But he said it was a regrettable outcome that the family had suffered unnecessarily, in light of “multiple” subsequent negative tests. “Our ability to control this virus requires us to respond rapidly to every single positive test,” the deputy premier and health minister told reporters on Tuesday. “We have to treat every positive test as though it is a positive case. “However, I would like to personally apologise to his partner and his family for any distress that our actions in responding rapidly has caused them. I know it’s been incredibly distressing for them.” The state’s chief health officer, Jeannette Young, said false positive tests for coronavirus were extremely rare. She said the results were compromised by the fact that one sample from Turner was contaminated with excessive blood from the post-mortem process. “There are two potential answers here. One is that it was a false positive. The other is that it was a true positive,” Young said. “And we won’t know which it was, but I am confident about the actions that were taken on that night to protect the community of Blackwater.” Queensland recorded one new coronavirus case overnight involving a 41-year-old woman who arrived on a flight from Africa.Young said she was infectious while she was on the plane and she and all other passengers were now in quarantine. The state now has five active coronavirus cases. Back in Australia, Victoria has moved passengers quarantining at the Rydges hotel to a different hotel, because of the number of staff who have had to go into self isolation, after an outbreak of Covid. That footage being being beamed around the world of police attacking a camera operator is of Network Seven cameraman Tim Myers and journalist Amelia Brace Meanwhile Victoria is also commissioning a mural to celebrate year of the nurse and midwife. It will be painted on one of the major hospitals. Victorian health minister Jenny Mikakos says Victoria will be strengthening the nurse and midwife to patient ratio. A new bill will be put into the parliament today, to deliver another 500 nursing and midwife positions (that is on top of the 600 new positions created last year).