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Every day, thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia wake up behind the bars of the country s prisons. Children live out their childhood in juvenile detention centres, hundreds of kilometres away from their family. Families continue to fight for justice and accountability for the deaths of their once imprisoned relatives, while the calls for solutions which empower Indigenous Australians to drive the change needed get louder.
Told by First Nations people; experts, academics and those impacted by the justice system, documentary Incarceration Nation lays bare the story of the continued systemic injustice and inequality experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on their own land.
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Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety found last year that police responses often displayed “racism and biased attitudes”.
The result is a larger number of First Nations women listed as perpetrators of domestic violence; and what their advocates say is a failure by police to properly understand their circumstances.
In February, the Queensland government announced a taskforce would be established to consult with domestic violence survivors, service providers, lawyers and the general community about coercive control, which includes tactics such as blocking victims’ access to money and cutting them off from friends and family.
The taskforce is set to report back in October on possible legislative options.
Prisoners kept behind bars for months amid parole board backlog
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Prisoners are being held behind bars for months while Queenslandâs parole board struggles to tackle a backlog of thousands of undecided cases.
In an email seen by
Brisbane Times, the parole board last month warned it had about 2100 undecided new parole applications.
Queenslandâs parole board has a backlog of thousands of cases.
Credit:Human Rights Watch
A prisoner who lodged an application for parole on March 24 was most likely to have their case considered in August.