Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, 18 September 2017 12 Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, End of Mission Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz on her visit to Australia (2017). At http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21473&LangID=E (viewed 11 September 2017). 13 Despite being only 3% of the total Australian population, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults account for over a quarter (27%) of the total Australian prison population. See Australian Bureau of Statistics (2016) Prisoners in Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Prisoner Characteristics, 4517.0 (8 December 2016). At http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/4517.0~2016~Main%20Features~Ab original%20and%20Torres%20Strait%20Islander%20prisoner%20characteristics~5 (viewed 11 September 2017). Between 2000 and 2013 the imprisonment rate for Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander adults increased by 57%. Most recent statistics show Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults are imprisoned at 13 times the rate of non-Indigenous adults. Aboriginal children are imprisoned at 24 times the rate of non-Indigenous young people. Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision, Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Key Indicators 2014 (2014), 4. At http://www.pc.gov.au/research/recurring/overcoming-indigenous-disadvantage/key-indicators2014#report (viewed 11 September 2017). On an average day, Indigenous children aged 10–17 were 17 times as likely to be under community-based supervision as non-Indigenous young people and 25 times as likely to be in juvenile detention: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Youth Justice in Australia 2015–16 (March 2017), 2. Athttps://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/b85be60c-9fef-436d-85df82d8e5c5f566/20705.pdf.aspx?inline=true (viewed 11 September 2017). 14 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Profiles of Disability, Australia, 2009, Comparison of Disability Prevalence between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Non-Indigenous Peoples (2013). At http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/4429.0~2009~Main%20Features~Co mparison%20of%20disability%20prevalence%20between%20Aboriginal%20and%20Torres%20Strait %20Islander%20peoples%20and%20non-Indigenous%20peoples~10029 (viewed 11 September 2017). Australian Human Rights Commission, Equal Before the Law: Towards disability justice strategies (2014) 12-13. At https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/disabilityrights/publications/equal-law (viewed 11 September 2017). E Baldry, R McCausland, L Dowse, E McEntyre, A predictable and preventable path: IAMHDCD Report (UNSW, October 2015). At https://www.mhdcd.unsw.edu.au/a-predictable-and-preventable-path-iamhdcd-report.html (viewed 11 September 2017). 15 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth aged between 10-17 years make up more than half (55%) of all children in juvenile detention. See Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Youth detention population in Australia (2016). At http://www.aihw.gov.au/publicationdetail/?id=60129557387&tab=2 (viewed 11 September 2017). In her country visit to Australia in 2017, the Special Rapporteur for the rights of indigenous peoples found that in Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville, Queensland, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children constitute 95% of the children detained there. See Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, End of Mission Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz on her visit to Australia (2017). At http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21473&LangID=E (viewed 11 September 2017). 16 Productivity Commission, Report on Government Services 2017, Vol C: Justice, Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (2017) 6.13; First Peoples Disability Justice Consortium, Submission 39 to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Parliament of Australia, Inquiry on the Indefinite Detention of People with Cognitive and Psychiatric Impairment in Australia. 17 Police Administration Act (NT), Div 4AA. 18 Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, End of Mission Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz on her visit to Australia (2017). At http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21473&LangID=E (viewed 11 September 2017). 19 Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, End of Mission Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz on her visit to Australia (2017). At http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21473&LangID=E (viewed 11 September 2017). 41