The colony’s solution to Indigenous youth crime? Jail and traumatise kids as young as 14 | First Dog on the Moon

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Wednesday, 27 Jul 2022

# Indigenous Australians

# Indigenous incarceration

# Prisons

Why? Racism obviously

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Wednesday, 27 Jul 2022

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The colony’s solution to Indigenous youth crime? Jail and traumatise kids as young as 14 | First Dog on the Moon

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