• In WA in many cases police did not use their legal discretion to divert Aboriginal juveniles away from the courts. http://bit.ly/5DTMB4
• Western Australia you’re 20 times more likely to be in jail if you are indigenous. Tough law&order policy does not work http://bit.ly/7uoWbJ
• Police officer bashed when intervened in fight between 70 members of 2 aboriginal families. Feuding for thirty years http://bit.ly/842K98
• The black heart of Australia. A summary of the trial of five men charged with murdering an Aboriginal man in Alice http://bit.ly/8Cvkbr
• Call to redirect funds to build jails towards disadvantaged indigenous communities to cut spiralling crime rates http://bit.ly/5H2gWX

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