Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

As Senator Payman may remember, we took some commitments to the last election about justice reinvestment. That was led by Senator Pat Dodson—also a Labor senator from WA—and Minister Burney, and those programs are being rolled out because we recognised in opposition and argued for many years from opposition about the need to tackle the high imprisonment rate of First Nations adults and young people in this country, and we committed to reducing imprisonment rates. There are 30 community led justice reinvestment initiatives across Australia, with 20 of them being funded already. These are based on successful programs which seek to provide support to reduce the amount of recidivism going on and to make sure we are providing culturally responsive justice reinvestment programs in those local communities. There's plenty of evidence— (Time expired)