Productivity Commission cites harsh bail legislation as example of changes likely to exacerbate disadvantage
That scathing assessment was published in the commission’s draft review on the national agreement on closing the gap, which the states and the commonwealth signed in 2020. The agreement vows to improve the entrenched inequality in life outcomes for Indigenous people, including by cutting imprisonment rates by 10% by 2031.
Queensland changes to bail laws were “repeatedly raised” during visits by the commission “as an example of governments failing to change the way they work, and acting in ways that are inconsistent with what they agreed to under the agreement, without any consequences”.Queensland has one of the highest imprisonment rates of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia.
Maggie Munn, who is Change the Record’s national director, said the commission’s conclusions were proof of the need for a new approach.
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