Justice for Eimable inquest + fundraiser updates
3rd May 2026
Inquest dates announced:
We have finally received confirmation about dates for the coronial inquest into Eimable’s passing. The inquest will run from Monday the 12th to Friday the 16th of October 2026 at the Coroners Court of Victoria, 65 Kavanagh St, Southbank VIC 3006. For inquest updates, please make sure you are following @justiceforeimable .
Fundraiser updates:
With your support, we have raised an incredible $5,093 to date to enable the loved ones of Eimable Manirakiza to travel interstate for his coronial inquest and directions hearings. We cannot thank you enough for your assistance to ensure that Eimable’s mum Benigne and his siblings can attend the inquest in person.
Our recent event, ‘Young, Black, Missing’ with Dr Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson, raised a massive $1,443 in ticket sales. We also know that some of you made donations to our GoFundMe since the event, boosting our efforts by a further $1,354. We are so grateful for your generosity.
‘Young, Black, Missing’ featured an inspiring conversation with Dr Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson of The Disappeared Project about race, missingness, policing and the coronial process. If you were not able to join us, you can watch the recording via the link in our bio.
Of the $5,093 raised so far, we have spent $2,519 to enable Eimable’s mum and brother to attend last year’s directions hearing. Remaining and future funds will be used to ensure that Eimable’s loved ones can be at the inquest in October, and to cover additional inquest-related costs.
Thank you again - we could not do this work without you.
What happens when a racialised person goes missing in Australia? Who is responsible for finding them and making sure that they're safe? How do the families and loved ones of missing persons navigate this incredibly difficult process? Who can they turn to for help on a system that is set up to fail them?
How do we resist this 'fatal indifference'?
Join us online from 1-2PM (AEST) on Thursday the 23rd of April for a conversation with @amymcquire_ and @martinghodgson from the @thedisappearedproject about race, missingness, policing and the coronial process.
'Young, Black, Missing' is a fundraiser for the loved ones of Eimable Manirakiza raising money to support them to attend his coronial inquest this year.
Get your tickets via the link in our bio. Pricing is tiered and attendance is free for First Nations and African Diaspora community members, and for families of missing persons.
Join @amymcquire_ at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Congress Student News Pilot! EOI still open!
We are pleased to announce Dr. Amy McQuire as the main facilitator of our Student News Pilot. Under her wing, delegates will work online as a group to choose stories, write, design and share a youth-led news publication that speaks to their experiences.
If you are or know any deadly young mob aged 12-18 who have a keen interest in amplifying student voices, agency and ambitions through Blak journalism this is the opportunity for you! 🫵
🔗 EOI form can be found on our Linktree in bio and closes 5th of April, 2026
✨ For more information about Student Congress head to our website
This initiative is supported by the Australian Government Office for Youth (OFY) and in collaboration with Foundation for Young Australians (FYA).
Every person who dies in custody leaves behind more than a name. They leave a life, a story and a family and community carrying a loss that should never have happened.
Stevie Lee Nixon-McKellar is one of these people.
A young man with a full life ahead of him, taken far too soon in a police killing.
Remembrance is not enough. There must also be accountability for what has been done.
We acknowledge and thank @amymcquire_ for her @blackwitnessmedia series, which brings truth, care and necessary attention to Stevie Lee’s story.
Read the series now at blackwitness.com
I’m assisting @niyec_mob with a new student news pilot. Participants will be producing their own news publication, writing stories that matter for young people. EOIs still open at the @niyec_mob website. You can also access the link at Niyec’s link tree on Instagram.
• Student News: a youth-led media collective amplifying young mob’s voices nationally
/student-congress
If you are an Indigenous journo, in media/communications or in law and justice and interested in doing a PhD, please consider applying! Link in bio as well
“This project disrupts and resists dehumanising representations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through the development of an Indigenous ethical practice that goes beyond current journalistic debates on media ethics. It is focused on centring the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in conversations on ‘justice’, illuminating how media representations cement power and further disempower Indigenous peoples, and will theorise and disseminate strategies to contest these acts of representational violence through the field of journalistic practice.
You have the opportunity to research and produce knowledge on an area of your interest which broadly aligns with the goals of the project. It would suit a candidate with an interest in black media and journalism or issues of justice affecting Indigenous peoples.”
The second instalment in a series on #JusticeforStevieLee. Access via the link tree in bio:
“There was dashcam and bodycam footage of police actions leading up to Stevie Lee’s death, but in releasing the findings, Coroner Ryan also knocked back the family’s request to release this footage to the public.
Earlier this week, acting coroner Stephanie Gallagher knocked back another submission by the family calling for the footage to be released.
Coroner Gallagher rejected the family’s submissions within 48 hours, but accepted the submissions of the Commissioner of Police”
“TWO weeks after Toowoomba police officers killed Stevie Lee Nixon-McKellar, his family gathered on the street where he said his last words: help me, help me, you’ve got me.
It was usually a quiet street, a cul-de-sac which ends next to a BMX track across from sprawling green parkland called the ‘Captain Cook Recreation Reserve’, not far from a small air strip where on occasion, light aircraft fly low.
But this day was solemn and grey, the clouds heavy and threatening a downpour.
Stevie Lee’s family had travelled a long way; his grandmother and aunties had driven in from his hometown of Mitchell, a four-and-a-half-hour drive west, and his mother, Dr Raelene Nixon, had flown in from Victoria, although she was not there on the street that day.
She had been forced into quarantine.
Please see to read the full story. Link in bio
