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23.8%) . In 2019 Prime minister Morrison acknowledged that the gap had
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Indigenous & non- Indigenous Australians. The NT Intervention Act discussed
above certainly added to the problem.
2016 Four corners report exposed the appalling conditions & mistreatment of children at the NT Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre. This situation pointed Intervention certainly exacerbated an already dire situation. In response the government set up the 2016 -2017 Royal Commission which found the Don Dale Centre totally unfit for children & therefore should be shut down & replaced. However, according to a 2019 report this still hasn’t happened – that there were/are still 11 children - all of them Aboriginal- still held in the Don Dale detention Centre. The Alice Springs juvenile detention centre has a similar story - there were/are 13 children still held there – again all of them Indigenous
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2016 The Redfern Statement handed to Malcolm Turnbull. Similar to 1992 & given symbolically at Redfern --a blueprint to address the disadvantages & inequalities many Aboriginals face. A call for the reinstatement of the $534 million 106funding cut from the Aboriginal portfolio to be invested in health, justice, preventing violence, early childhood & disability... to reverse the funding cuts to The National
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2017 The Uluru Statement from the heart. After travelling to 12 different locations across Australia & meeting with 1,200 Indigenous representatives this
102 Sbs news,2019,’Indigenous youth suicide at crisis point’
103 Australian Human Rights commission. ‘Close the Gap report – ‘Our choices, Our voices’ (2019).
104 Australian Human Rights Commission, ‘Close the gap 2020’.
105 Wikipedia, ‘Don dale Youth detention Centre’pp1-6; The Guardian May 2019,’System is broken:all children in the NT detention are Aboriginal. Official say.
106 Abott goverments cuts.
107 Creative spirit, ‘The 2016 Redfern Statement.’ www.org.gov.’The Redfern statement’; reconciliation.org.au Election 2016: ‘The Redfern Speech’.
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widened.
figures show that they are detained at a rate of more than 20 times that of non- Indigenous Australians. According to the 2020 Closing the Gap report successive governments have continued to fail to close this gap of disadvantage between
Australians.
By 2020 the Aboriginal youth detention rates had also increased. The
congress of Australia’s First Peoples.