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[#] Coordinator, Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales.

[*] President, Ngalaya, Indigenous Lawyers Association.

[1] Australian Institute of Health & Welfare, Australia’s Health 1994, AGPS (1994) p 26.

[2] Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Third Report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 1995 at 17.

[3] J McDonald, “10 Years On, Prisons are ‘Crammed’ with Blacks”, The Age, p 4.

[4] Ibid.

[5] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Australia’s Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, February 1999 at 100.

[6] L Doherty, “Tragic Black Youth Key to Jail Deaths”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 1999, p 3, reporting statistics released by the NSW Department of Corrective Services in July 1999.

[7] Note 2 supra at 15.

[8] Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report, Recommendation 62.

[9] Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing Them Home, 1996 at 582.

[10] Ibid at 581.

[11] Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Social Justice Report, 1999 at 110

[12] Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Fourth Report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 1996 at 24

[13] Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Social Justice Report, 1999 at 110

[14] Ibid at 109.

[15] Ibid at 110.

[16] Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, International Human Rights Handbook (1993) p 120.

[17] Article 37(b).

[18] Amnesty International, Australia: A Criminal Justice System Weighted Against Aboriginal People (1993).

[19] Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Social Justice Report, 1999 at 110.

[20] “Improving Human Services for Victorian Koories: A Five Year Plan”, March 1998 at 5.