Comments on: More than 15 % in jail for unpaid fines http://thestringer.com.au/more-than-15-in-jail-for-unpaid-fines-9407 Independent news and award winning investigative journalism brought to you daily. Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:23:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: WGAR News http://thestringer.com.au/more-than-15-in-jail-for-unpaid-fines-9407/comment-page-1#comment-24842 WGAR News Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:34:41 +0000 http://thestringer.com.au/?p=9407#comment-24842 Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal Deaths in Custody WGAR News: Land Grab In The Outback: Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders: Global Freedom Movement Media https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/16/wgar-news-land-grab-in-the-outback-australia-unites-against-genocide-of-first-peoples Contents: * Extended Insightful Audio/Video Interview: Aimee Devlin & Brendan D. Murphy, Global Freedom Movement Media: Land Grab In The Outback: Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders [Featuring Bella & Herbert Bropho] ... * News Analysis: NACCHO Health & Justice News: Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 24th anniversary but still in crisis * News Analysis: NACCHO Prison Health News: Prisons are a poor substitute for primary and mental health care * News Analysis: Melissa Sweet, Croakey - the Crikey health blog: Change the narrative to stop Aboriginal incarceration * News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: We are about to stop jailing fine defaulters - to the critics, do not naively criticise this away ... * WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody ... Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

WGAR News: Land Grab In The Outback: Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders: Global Freedom Movement Media

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/16/wgar-news-land-grab-in-the-outback-australia-unites-against-genocide-of-first-peoples

Contents:

* Extended Insightful Audio/Video Interview: Aimee Devlin & Brendan D. Murphy, Global Freedom Movement Media:
Land Grab In The Outback: Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders [Featuring Bella & Herbert Bropho] …

* News Analysis: NACCHO Health & Justice News: Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 24th anniversary but still in crisis
* News Analysis: NACCHO Prison Health News: Prisons are a poor substitute for primary and mental health care
* News Analysis: Melissa Sweet, Croakey – the Crikey health blog: Change the narrative to stop Aboriginal incarceration
* News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: We are about to stop jailing fine defaulters – to the critics, do not naively criticise this away …

* WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody …

]]> By: Bella Corella http://thestringer.com.au/more-than-15-in-jail-for-unpaid-fines-9407/comment-page-1#comment-24078 Bella Corella Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:02:22 +0000 http://thestringer.com.au/?p=9407#comment-24078 "The further west we journey across this continent the more racist it gets, the harsher it gets on our poorest, on the marginalised, on the downtrodden." I am totally amazed that Western Australia is still living in the dark ages when it comes to justice. According to this article "In NSW, the practice of arresting, sentencing and locking up fine defaulters was outlawed in 1988." Why should it be any different in WA? Mr Francis said, “Just because you are on welfare and you can’t afford to pay a fine doesn’t mean you should be exempt from the ramifications of the justice system.” Surely this is discriminatory and needs to be brought up to date with the rest of Australia. Why should West Australians be treated differently to their fellow Australians? Even many of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) hearings are not recorded and are held behind closed doors with no transparency or accountability, allowing for abuse of power. Apparently the SSAT also have some power to refer some cases to other departments where children are involved. According to another Stringer article "there are 14,000 children right across this continent of First Peoples who have been removed from their families in 2014 by the DCPs. That is a higher number of removals than in any year of the ‘official’ Stolen Generation years from 1905 to 1970. Are we witnessing another stolen generation??? It is not just the Aboriginal peoples that are at stake here. Even the Administrative Appeals Tribunal is approving Stay Orders, (orders to continue Security Security payments), armed with the knowledge, that the vast majority of their cases, (over 90% according to the Department of Human Services 2012/2013 Annual Report), are knocked back once again leaving our poorest, our marginalised, the downtrodden and most vulnerable in society with thousands of dollars in over-payments. This is ruthless and unacceptable in this day and age. I think we are well overdue for a review of our justice system. These are our fellow Australian's and their children's lives that are at stake. INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE!!! (Martin Luther King). “The further west we journey across this continent the more racist it gets, the harsher it gets on our poorest, on the marginalised, on the downtrodden.”

I am totally amazed that Western Australia is still living in the dark ages when it comes to justice. According to this article “In NSW, the practice of arresting, sentencing and locking up fine defaulters was outlawed in 1988.” Why should it be any different in WA? Mr Francis said, “Just because you are on welfare and you can’t afford to pay a fine doesn’t mean you should be exempt from the ramifications of the justice system.” Surely this is discriminatory and needs to be brought up to date with the rest of Australia. Why should West Australians be treated differently to their fellow Australians?

Even many of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) hearings are not recorded and are held behind closed doors with no transparency or accountability, allowing for abuse of power. Apparently the SSAT also have some power to refer some cases to other departments where children are involved. According to another Stringer article “there are 14,000 children right across this continent of First Peoples who have been removed from their families in 2014 by the DCPs. That is a higher number of removals than in any year of the ‘official’ Stolen Generation years from 1905 to 1970. Are we witnessing another stolen generation??? It is not just the Aboriginal peoples that are at stake here.

Even the Administrative Appeals Tribunal is approving Stay Orders, (orders to continue Security Security payments), armed with the knowledge, that the vast majority of their cases, (over 90% according to the Department of Human Services 2012/2013 Annual Report), are knocked back once again leaving our poorest, our marginalised, the downtrodden and most vulnerable in society with thousands of dollars in over-payments. This is ruthless and unacceptable in this day and age.

I think we are well overdue for a review of our justice system. These are our fellow Australian’s and their children’s lives that are at stake.

INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE!!! (Martin Luther King).

]]> By: WGAR News http://thestringer.com.au/more-than-15-in-jail-for-unpaid-fines-9407/comment-page-1#comment-23985 WGAR News Sun, 01 Feb 2015 01:34:02 +0000 http://thestringer.com.au/?p=9407#comment-23985 WGAR News: ... https://indymedia.org.au/2015/02/01/wgar-news-grandmothers-against-removals-call-for-support Contents: ... * News: SNAICC: We must look to our humanity to solve the crisis of Indigenous incarceration * Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: More than 15 % in jail for unpaid fines * WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody WGAR News: …

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/02/01/wgar-news-grandmothers-against-removals-call-for-support

Contents: …
* News: SNAICC: We must look to our humanity to solve the crisis of Indigenous incarceration
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: More than 15 % in jail for unpaid fines
* WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody

]]> By: Jillian Fryer http://thestringer.com.au/more-than-15-in-jail-for-unpaid-fines-9407/comment-page-1#comment-23981 Jillian Fryer Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:05:10 +0000 http://thestringer.com.au/?p=9407#comment-23981 not much point in constructing all these beautiful shiny new prisons if you are not going to round up people to put in them is there? Otherwise they'd be rotting round the landscape being a joke to the world like those cities in China we hear about. Or some of those hard to let new giant towers of office space we keep hearing about in our cities. Of course if Capitalisim were a logical system , which I understand it isn't, otherwise it wouldn't be called Capitalism, the fine defaulters could instead be stored in our vacant high rise office buildings. As it is perhaps the caring business class could be stored in the shiny new guantanamo style prisons if they turn up wanting the use of office space after all. not much point in constructing all these beautiful shiny new prisons if you are not going to round up people to put in them is there? Otherwise they’d be rotting round the landscape being a joke to the world like those cities in China we hear about. Or some of those hard to let new giant towers of office space we keep hearing about in our cities. Of course if Capitalisim were a logical system , which I understand it isn’t, otherwise it wouldn’t be called Capitalism, the fine defaulters could instead be stored in our vacant high rise office buildings. As it is perhaps the caring business class could be stored in the shiny new guantanamo style prisons if they turn up wanting the use of office space after all.

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