Thread by @RichardAOB

We're not racist but...👇

29% of our prison population are Indgenous (3.3% of Australians are Indigenous).

34.3% of incarcerated women in Australia are Indigenous.

48% of incarcerated juveniles in Australia are Indigenous.

In Western Australia, 6.7% of Indigenous people are in prison. In the USA 0.6% of African-Americans are in prison.

Indigenous Australians are 14.8 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Indigenous Australians.
Indigenous Western Australians are 20 times more likely to be incarcerated.

Between 2000 and 2010 the imprisonment rate increased by 58.6% for Indigenous women, 32.5% for indigenous men, 22.4% for non-indigenous women and 3.6% for non-indigenous men.

Indigenous Australians are 14.8 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Indigenous Australians.

Indigenous Western Australians are 20 times more likely to be incarcerated.

Indigenous women are 20 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Indigenous women in Australia.

In Western Australia Indigenous Australians are 3.2 times more likely to be pulled over and fined if they are Indigenous.
Speed camera fines are the same in WA for Indigenous and non-Indigenous.

Drivers in Australia are 19.2 times more likely to be fined for seatbelt offences if they are Indigenous.

Compared to non-Indigenous Australians, Indigenous people are more likely to be charged with a minor offence, are more likely to receive a custodial sentence if convicted and on average serve longer sentences for the same offence.

Australia incarcerates Indigenous people at 3 times the rate of the USA (our closest rival) and 4 times the rate of South Africa under apartheid.
WA jails Indigenous people at 9 times the rate of Apartheid South Africa.

When the 1992 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody released its findings in 1992 (a third of which have still not been adopted), one in seven Australian prisoners were Indigenous. In 2020 it is one in four.

On average, Indigenous Australians earn 38% less than non-Indigenous people in the same job. They are also 59% more likely to be made redundant, 4 times more likely to become homeless and have a life expectancy 17 years shorter than the national average.

Since 2013, the Federal government has cut more than half a billion dollars from funding for Indigenous programs.