Indigenous Culture and Law

Aboriginal people are over-represented in the criminal justice and prison systems. Do you think that Australia could better address this issue through strengthened application of The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? What is practical example of such change? Use this references Editorial. 2011. ‘Putting Indigenous human rights into social work practice’. Australian Social Work, 64 (2). Cowan, A. 2013. ‘Undrip and the intervention: Indigenous self-determination, participation, and racial discrimination in the NT of Australia’. Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 22 (2). Bennett, B, Green, S, Gilbert. S, Bessarab, D (2013). - Our Voices Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Work Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/un-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples-1