Senate debates
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Questions without Notice
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
2:46 pm
Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source
As we are continuing work on those recommendations from the royal commission, we are taking other actions as well in the First Nations justice space, like investing in up to 30 community led justice reinvestment initiatives across Australia and establishing an independent national justice reinvestment unit, as recommended by the Australian Law Reform Commission.
The Attorney-General has also announced nine communities that were successful in the first round of justice reinvestment grants. Senator Thorpe, as I'm sure you are aware, they were in Cowra in New South Wales, Maningrida, Groote Eylandt—
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