NSW Bar Association New South Wales Bar Association President, Michael McHugh SC, described the report today as an “important piece of work that stands on the shoulders on 30 years’ worth of like inquiries”. “It beggars belief that on the 30 th anniversary of the Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, recommendations from that landmark report are still to be implemented. This cannot be acceptable and should not be tolerated,” Mr McHugh SC said. “The over-representation of First Nations peoples in NSW is nothing short of a state crisis. “Despite a number of reports and inquiries over some decades, First Nations people remain significantly and unacceptably over-represented in NSW prisons and the criminal justice system. While First Nations people represent 3% of the population in NSW, they represent 40% of adults refused bail in NSW and 25% of the prison population.