10.12.2020

Public Engagement

Filed under: Criminal law and process, Indigenous

Public engagement taking place in 2020 following the release of the Final Report, Pathways to Justice–Inquiry into the Incarceration Rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ALRC Report 133).

Type	Title	Date	Organisation
Article	Black Lives Matter movement in Australia: First Nations perspectives	19/01/2021	UNSW Newsroom
Article	‘disappointing’ NSW Budget holds back on funding for Walama court, First Nations	18/11/2020	Mirage News
Article	Establishing Walama Court must not be ignored in NSW budget or justice system	13/11/2020	Mirage News
Article	Time to revisit ALRC report to close justice gap	2/11/2020	Law Council of Australia
Article	Nathan Reynolds’ coronial inquiry hears evidence of systemic neglect, cruelty	30/10/2020	Green Left
Event	Closing the Gap: Implementing the ALRC’s Pathways to Justice Roadmap	28/10/2020	Law Council of Australia
Media	Stop reporting and start doing, lawyers tell NSW inquiry into ‘inhumane’ Indigenous incarceration	26/10/2020	The Guardian
Media	Legal system marred by ‘deep and historical’ injustices	6/10/2020	Queensland Times
Media	The suburbs and towns that copped the most pandemic fines	27/09/2020	Brisbane Times
Article	Time to repeal the NSW crime of offensive language	22/09/2020	Sydney Criminal Lawyers
Event	First Nations Justice and civil liberties challenges for Indigenous Australians	11/09/2020	NSW Council for Civil Liberties
Article	ACT Election 2020: Delivering promise of a Human Rights jurisdiction	10/09/2020	ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS)
Article	Criminologists Call for Divestment in Police and Prisons to End First Nations Injustice	8/09/2020	Sydney Criminal Lawyers
Media	Our Lives Matter: The Shocking Truth of Indigenous	4/09/2020	The Advertiser
Media	It’s time to raise the age: Aboriginal children’s lives matter	29/08/2020	Brisbane Times
Article	Open letter calls for urgent action to address over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people	26/08/2020	UNSW Newsroom
Media	Justice targets are a ‘wish list’ that lack real ambition, legal bodies say	3/08/2020	Lawyers Weekly
Article	Australian Bar Association joins expression of disappointment at Commonwealth’s justice targets	3/08/2020	Australian Bar Association
Article	Justice targets are just a wish list	31/07/2020	Law Council of Australia
Article	Targets miss mark on justice for First Nations	30/07/2020	Mirage News
Media	What next for BLM? How a new role could help end Indigenous deaths in custody	27/07/2020	SBS News
Media	Vickie Roach saw her first death in custody at 18. She’s spent the decades since fighting to abolish prisons	9/07/2020	ABC News
Media	Closing the gap progress can’t take 73 years: Ken Wyatt	3/07/2020	The Australian Financial Review
Article	Kirby Institute stands against racism, urgently calls for an end to over-incarceration and Aboriginal deaths in custody	30/06/2020	UNSW Newsroom
Article	WA passes laws to stop vulnerable people going to jail for unpaid fines	19/06/2020	Pro Bono Australia
Media	How does Australia address worsening Indigenous incarceration rates? Focus on these three things	16/06/2020	News.com.au
Media	What will it take for governments to recognise Australia’s justice gap is a national tragedy?	16/06/2020	The Guardian
Media	Federal government funds Victoria’s Indigenous custody service	13/06/2020	Brisbane Times
Media	Justice groups issue five-point plan to reduce Indigenous imprisonment	12/06/2020	The Guardian
Media	Indigenous court needed in NSW to close gap and focus on rehabilitation, say advocates	11/06/2020	SBS News
Media	NSW ‘indigenous court needed’ to close gap	10/06/2020	9News
Media	Nothing changes’: Indigenous leader wants action on incarceration rate	10/06/2020	Brisbane Times
Media	Premier needs to act on model to save black lives	9/06/2020	WA Today
Media	Professor Marcia Langton AO calls on governments to listen to Black Lives Matter protesters	8/06/2020	ABC News
Media	On Saturday, amid protests for Black Lives Matter, an Indigenous man died in police custody.	7/06/2020	Mamamia
Media	Aboriginal deaths in custody: 434 have died since 1991, new data shows	6/06/2020	The Guardian
Article	Urgent need to address Australia’s national disgrace	4/06/2020	Oxfam Australia
Article	Calls to end Indigenous deaths in custody	3/06/2020	Australian Human Rights Commission
Media	16 facts you need to know about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.	2/06/2020	Mamamia
Media	NSW Bar renews calls for Walama Court	29/05/2020	Lawyers Weekly
Media	Circle sentencing success strengthens case for a Walama Court in NSW	26/05/2020	Mirage News
Media	My son should not have died’: Prison death of Indigenous man is much more than an ‘isolated tragedy’	16/05/2020	SBS News
Media	Don’t forget ACT’s horrendous Indigenous prison record	3/05/2020	The Canberra Times
Media	Indigenous incarceration: a national disgrace and nobody cares	26/04/2020	The Canberra Times
Article	COVID urgency and calls for release	21/04/2020	IndigenousX
Media	$50k fellowship to help find solutions to ‘failed system’	12/03/2020	Bryon Shire News
Media	400 deaths, zero convictions: Australia’s national shame	26/01/2020	Mamamia
Media	Veronica Nelson Walker’s family laid her to rest not knowing how she died in custody	18/01/2020	ABC News Online