Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Given that, when the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were seven times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Indigenous Australians, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are now 13 times more likely to be incarcerated, and that there has been an 88 per cent increase in Aboriginal incarceration in the last 10 years, will the government establish a national whole-of-government approach to addressing Aboriginal incarceration as called for by the Change the Record coalition and, if not, what is the government doing to address the appalling rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' incarceration?