Australia misses another deadline to implement an international anti-torture agreement, with the country's three largest states accused of dragging their feet and bickering with the Commonwealth over funding.
"Australia asked and was granted a three-year extension after it ratified [the agreement] before it had to have all of these processes set up," Ms Reiger said.
Jamie McConnachie, executive officer at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, argued practices recently subject to recent intense media scrutiny would also be covered. "The most recent data, of the 30th of June 2022, recorded that 31 per cent of adults locked up in Australian prisons were actually First Nations people, in spite of First Nations people making up 3 per cent of the population as of June 2021."
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