Subject: Fw: mandatory sentencing
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:40:17 +1100
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We, the undersigned Australians, request that the Northern
Territory
Government repeal the Mandatory Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders Bill
1999
immediately.
We believe the recent death of a fifteen year old Aboriginal boy who
was being detained in Darwin under the Territory's mandatory sentencing
laws was avoidable. We believe the Mandatory Sentencing of Juvenile
Offenders Bill 1999 is
discriminatory, disrespectful, morally abhorrent, racist and unjust.
The Mandatory Sentencing Bill takes the responsibility for law and
order away from the local custodians of the law in each Aboriginal
community
in the Territory.
Despite the Royal Commission's Inquiry into Aboriginal Deaths in
Custody and 339 recommendations later, Aboriginal people are still 14
times
more likely to be imprisoned than non-Aboriginal Australians. In the
Northern Territory, 72.8 per cent of the prison population is
Aboriginal.
This compares with 33.1% in Western Australia and 21.6% in Queensland.
Does the Northern Territory Government genuinely believe that
mandatory sentencing laws are making a real difference?
There is a better way.
We believe the boy's local community and family could have undertaken
>a
more appropriate action under customary law and the young boy would
probably still be alive today.
We urge you to consider enabling and supporting Aboriginal people in
the Northern Territory to implement their own laws as responsible,
respectful and valid, ways of dealing with offensive law breaking
behaviour.
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Yours sincerely,
1. Nicholas Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. Daniel Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3. Jane Susak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4. Aysen Mustafa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5. Brian Rapsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6. Dylan Rapsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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9. Marj O'Callaghan
10. Helen Thal
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Senior Lecturer Workplace Learning and Organisational Development Unit
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Western Sydney Nepean
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