Labor senator demands government make it ‘top priority’ to reduce incarceration rates and children in out-of-home care, saying ‘now’s the time to stop the rot’
Labor senator Pat Dodson, who worked on the 1991 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, has criticised 30 years of government failure to “relieve this awful blight on this nation’s history”.
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