"...our indigenous population are far more likely to be jailed for things that white Australians who've committed the same offences usually aren't."

If that is the case, it must be fixed. If jailing occurs as a consequence of diversionary penalties being ignored that must be addressed too.

These matters should not obfuscate a cultural issue concerned with offending that only aborigines have control over.

Equal penalties under the same law for all Australians.

Funny how some people still blame the appalling behaviour of non-whites on whites, and make unsubstantiated claims that whites are not jailed for things that non-whites are jailed for. It's much easier to talk shite than to expect the non-whites to take responsibility for their own behaviour. When it is suggested that placing deprived aboriginal children with white families who can lift them out of barbarity and ignorance, the same people start screeching about 'racism'. They have absolutely no interest in improving the lot of people they would prefer to see frozen in the Stone Age as 'noble savages'. The problem is they are not noble, just a savage; and that's the way the Left wants to keep them.

How often do you think that much of this prison time for aboriginals is actually a magistrate deciding the best thing they can do for many is prison?

This gets them off the grog, or glue sniffing for a while, with perhaps some chance to get their brain less addled. It might even get some decent food into them for a while.

Hell it might even get them away from the do-gooders that infest the aboriginal world, for a while.

Government sponspored Humans Rights lawyers are a big part of the problem and yet want to offer solutions! Same old same old. While Indigeneous crime rates continue to rise so the the jailing of the crimminals. Deal with the issues. I doubt it.

How ridiculous ,theres more in jail because they are bad boys and girls . I understand a lot are reafending on AVOs. Is beatng up the wife partner girlfriend traditional

Clearly if one group in the nation is disproportionately represented in the prison system, its the fault of the system and things need to be changed to the advantage of that discriminated-against group.

On an entirely different note, men are vastly over represented in the prison system. In the same way that aboriginals are 17 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-aboriginals, men are 17 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-men.

I'm sure the usual compassionate folk are working, as we speak, on ways to rectify this disparity.