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The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has announced $64 million joint police taskforce to tackle gang crime.
Seventy members of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and state police officers will join with staff from the Australian Crime Commission, Australian Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, the Australian Taxation Office and Centrelink. [Read more…]
The Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, has spoken of the national shame that is the over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system.
McClelland delivered the Lionel Murphy Lecture at the Australian National University. Murphy was Attorney-General in the Whitlam Labor government from 1972 until his appointment as a Justice of the High Court in early 1975. He served on the court until his death in 1986. [Read more…]
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