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Shameful: Indigenous Sentencing in Australia

By Steven Garcia | 11 August 2023

Indigenous Australians experience stricter sentencing than non-Indigenous people in the 21st Century. However, this is not a new occurrence. Since European settlement in Australia, Aboriginal people have been subject to white law – despite it not being their own law.