We've seen it with spikes on the ground, benches you can't lie down on and sprinklers in parks. Now governments are using technology to criminalise the homeless, with a new app in the NT encouraging people to dob in rough sleepers.
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Showing posts with label Northern Territory. Show all posts
Government accused of criminalising homelessness
We've seen it with spikes on the ground, benches you can't lie down on and sprinklers in parks. Now governments are using technology to criminalise the homeless, with a new app in the NT encouraging people to dob in rough sleepers.
The Daily Mail
NT to deliver Aboriginal justice agreement
Posted on 26 July 2019
by Nico Bell
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imprisonment Indigenous Australians Northern Territory
imprisonment Indigenous Australians Northern Territory
We are finally starting to see that after years and billions of dollars spent on expensive, pointless fixes to Aboriginal health, welfare and equality divides, governments might actually be...asking Aboriginal people themselves about the policies that affect their communities.
The Northern Territory is now working with the Aboriginal Justice Unit to establish an Aboriginal Justice Agreement to tackle the Territory's Indigenous incarceration rates and racial divides in policing.
ABC News
As a non Indigenous person, it's generally my belief and practice not to opinionate on Indigenous issues other than to amplify Aboriginal voices. My answer to What Should Be Done is, don't ask white commentators. Ask Aboriginal people.
The Northern Territory is now working with the Aboriginal Justice Unit to establish an Aboriginal Justice Agreement to tackle the Territory's Indigenous incarceration rates and racial divides in policing.
ABC News
As a non Indigenous person, it's generally my belief and practice not to opinionate on Indigenous issues other than to amplify Aboriginal voices. My answer to What Should Be Done is, don't ask white commentators. Ask Aboriginal people.
Disgusting! Why is this racist judge allowed to sit on the bench?!
Posted on 18 July 2019
by Nico Bell
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Indigenous Australians Legal Northern Territory Racism
Indigenous Australians Legal Northern Territory Racism
Meet NT Judge Greg Borchers.
He's already been sanctioned for comments including telling the traumatised 13 year old son of a murdered woman that he was taking advantage of his mother's death to play truant and commit petty crime, and that "the community can't afford you".
But it seems to have only riled him up.
Today this fine specimen of the legal fraternity has been reported as comparing an Indigenous offender to a "primitive person", telling an Indigenous mother she probably got drunk on pension day and “abandoned your kids in that great Indigenous fashion”, and pondering that “One day we might read some literature, some important anthropological literature, we might learn something about what’s called Indigenous laissez-faire parenting and I invite you to do so, not that it will help your practice in any way, but it might get you to understand why it is that people abandon their children on such a regular basis.”
Even in the NT and even with the racism that goes on in this country, this guy is something else. And what he should be made very soon is something else without a job.
