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| Subject: OZschwitz gulag: 53 per cent of young people in detention are indigenous Sat Feb 15, 2014 4:39 pm | |
| Imagine if more than half the young people detained in Australia today were from Sydney. Imagine if they were white. Newspaper letter writers would whip themselves into a frenzy, GetUp! would run a national campaign and tens of thousands would take to the streets to march for the freedom of Australia's children.
Instead, 53 per cent of young people in detention are indigenous. And instead of a national outcry, Australia is gripped by a national silence.
According to the latest national figures, indigenous young people - who comprise just 5 per cent of the population - were detained at a staggering 31 times the rate of non-indigenous young people on an average night in June 2012. Most were yet to be sentenced.
Last week, Prime Minister Tony Abbott delivered a heartfelt speech on the government's progress on the Closing the Gap goals to improve indigenous people's health and life expectancy.
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