Senate debates

Wednesday, 17 March 2021

Questions without Notice

Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

2:21 pm

Photo of Simon BirminghamSimon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I understand that an independent review into the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was conducted in 2017. At the time, it found that the Australian government and governments of all political persuasions had fully or mostly implemented 91 per cent of recommendations for which the Australian government has responsibility. It also found that 18 partially implemented recommendations have largely been superseded by subsequent government actions and policies, that 78 per cent of the 339 recommendations in total—noting that many of those related to states and territories as the operators of the judicial system—have been fully or mostly implemented and 16 per cent partially implemented, and that around 90 per cent of recommendations relating to the safety of Indigenous Australians taken into custody have been fully or mostly implemented.

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