The death of George Floyd has triggered an important global discussion about structural racism, including here in Australia.
Structural racism describes the power imbalances that are embedded in institutions and systems, especially where institutions carry unequal and unjust historical legacies.
At three per cent of the population, Indigenous people are 29 per cent of the Australian prison population. As Cape York Partnership founder Noel Pearson identified, Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet.
Between 1990 and 1995, Indigenous people were 16.5 times more likely than non-Indigenous people to die in custody. But, almost 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Indigenous incarceration rate has doubled.
Read more: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/australia-s-constitutional-answer-to-structural-racism
Structural racism describes the power imbalances that are embedded in institutions and systems, especially where institutions carry unequal and unjust historical legacies.
At three per cent of the population, Indigenous people are 29 per cent of the Australian prison population. As Cape York Partnership founder Noel Pearson identified, Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet.
Between 1990 and 1995, Indigenous people were 16.5 times more likely than non-Indigenous people to die in custody. But, almost 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Indigenous incarceration rate has doubled.
Read more: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/australia-s-constitutional-answer-to-structural-racism
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