The complete response, after three months’ consideration, by the Minister for Social Services the Hon. Dan Tehan MP to the Australian Law Reform Commission report Pathways to Justice—An Inquiry into the Incarceration Rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, which the Australian Government commissioned on 10 February 2017 and received on 22 December 2017 and which was finally tabled in Parliament on 27 March 2018, concerning the disproportionately high rates of incarceration among Aboriginal and Torres Strait people (despite being around 2% of the Australian population, in 2016, Indigenous Australian men were 15 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous men, and Indigenous women were 21 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous women) which costs Australia an estimated $7.9 billion every year, not counting the harm to individuals, families and communities, and is agreed by many organisations to be ‘a national disgrace.’ Continue reading
history
Another exoplanet
and
despite
the obvious click-bait
including artist’s impression —
a cool grey sphere
transiting the full fiery face —
it was the qualifications I noticed Continue reading
Friday favourite – 5 Jan 18
Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre,
Melbourne Museum,
Nicholson St, Carlton, Victoria.
$0 to $15 (included with Museum entry)
until 4 Feb 2018,
Continue reading
Holt (17/12/67)
Fair comment(s)
Looks like a fair
I cannot believe. Continue reading
Villanelle on historical relativism
It’s not hard to pull down a statue, happens every day.
Granite, bronze or concrete — it makes no difference my dear,
they come down quite easily, if there’s a will there’s a way. Continue reading