https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2 en-us 2023-09-12 12:17:16 UTC 2023-09-12 22:55:52 UTC hello@padlet.com jessscott238 https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2699822586 2023-09-12 12:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2699822586 jessscott238 https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2699907640 2023-09-12 13:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2699907640 jessscott238 https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2699934982
• 'An ongoing process of choice' in matters relating to First Nations social, cultural and economic needs - Australian Human Rights Commission
•  Key recommendation from the Royal Commission
• 18th Century - colonial project began
• First Nations Australians have been continuously denied access to control over their lives communities and outcome of dispossession
• Needs to be an acknowledgment of this fundamental right
• Focus on justice reinvestment programs key to curbing incarceration rates
• Example includes Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project in Bourke, New South Wales show that community led initiatives can make real change ]]> 2023-09-12 13:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2699934982 jessscott238 https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2699954975 • Sexual abuse and violence within families - key driver of First Nations incarceration rates
• 90% of incarcerated First Nations women are survivors of family violence
• 70% are sexual abuse survivors
• Preventing violence can reduce incarceration rates of both females and males.

• Wholesale legal reform required with bail amendment allowing:
- culturally sensitive issues
- sentencing to have regard to systematic factors that impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- compulsory sentencing reports taking these factors into account 
- involvement of trained, culturally aware persons]]> 2023-09-12 13:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2699954975 jessscott238 https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2700691144 • Protest movements create change through strength and mobility 
• Black Lives Matter - important starting point in shifting cultural attitudes
• Influenced by George Floyd protests in America - the movement in Australia 2020 centred on First Nations issues
• Movements led and organised by First Nations women - intersect with tackling excesses of capitalism and threat of environmental crisis and relation to rights of issue of land rights]]> 2023-09-12 22:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2700691144 jessscott238 https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2700694371 A multifaceted approach including First Nations self-determination, mass movement and protest, and legal reform are all necessary to reduce the incarceration of First Nations men and women]]> 2023-09-12 22:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2700694371 jessscott238 https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2700696025 Extensive research has been conducted and the statistics are ubiquitous. Since the Royal Commission, imprisonment rates of First Nations peoples have continued to increase. The government has failed to listen and implement acceptable strategies, therefore we will continue to see the mass incarceration of First Nations Australians until systematic and structural change occurs. ]]> 2023-09-12 22:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2700696025 jessscott238 https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2700723514 2023-09-12 22:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jessscott238/lygwx996h98v80h2/wish/2700723514