In 1991, at the time of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were 7 times more likely to be in prison. Despite ongoing efforts to improve this appalling statistic, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ‘Prisoners in Australia’ data, in 2015 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were 15.5 times more likely to be incarcerated than other Australians. ABS statistics also reveal that since 2004 there has been an 88 per cent increase in the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders imprisoned, while the non-Indigenous rate has risen by 28 per cent.
in favour of a free market economy and capitalism