‘Shameful’: UN expert calls out Australia’s record on Indigenous rights
The United Nations has expressed alarm over the high numbers of Indigenous people in Australia’s jails, calling for a national minimum age of 14 for imprisonment.
The international body’s representative on the rights of Indigenous peoples has been visiting Australia, but his requests to enter juvenile detention facilities in Queensland and the Northern Territory were knocked back.
Both governments argue they already have independent oversight of their prison systems, where children as young as ten can be jailed.
The UN representative Albert Barume has been speaking with SBS and NITV National Indigenous Affairs Editor John Paul Janke.
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