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A shocking record on Indigenous incarceration

April 30, 2015 / July 27, 2015 by Oxfam

It’s a shocking record – one that’s devastating lives and tearing communities apart. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are 13 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous people. Arrente man Des Rogers’s story is an all-too-common one. Imprisoned at the age of fourteen, Des was “thrown back into a world of hopelessness” and […]

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Time to change the record on Indigenous justice

April 23, 2015 / July 27, 2015 by Oxfam

This month marks the 24th anniversary of the tabling of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report in federal parliament. Next year the report will be a generation old. We should reflect on what has been done to change the landscape of the criminal justice system for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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