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

I, and also on behalf of Senators Brown, Fierravanti-Wells, Gallagher, Gichuhi, Hanson-Young, Hume, Lambie, Kakoschke-Moore, Kitching, Lines, McAllister, McCarthy, McKenzie, Moore, Nash, O'Neill, Pratt, Polley, Reynolds, Rice, Rhiannon, Ruston, Singh, Urquhart and Wong, move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes the report, Over-represented and overlooked: the crisis of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's growing over-imprisonment, which was released in May 2017;

(b) acknowledges the harrowing statistics in the report that:

(i) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women make up only 2 per cent of the adult female population, but 34 per cent of women in prison, and

(ii) some 80 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women behind bars are mothers; and

(c) asks for Federal leadership to develop a national action plan to address the crisis of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s growing over-imprisonment.