Social and political debates about racism rarely include the voices of the oppressed and are instead a prescription or stricture within the narrowest discourse. Australia’s major institutions and think tanks are not just in a hostile public denial of this nation’s knee deep racism despite the racism being self-evident, but are ruthlessly hostile to any legitimate discourse because it is their exclusive intention to protect White privilege and power.

The mass incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be a civil rights issue, one of the pressing issues of our generation but our Governments – one after another – continue to fail to translate this pressing issue as a national priority. The incarceration rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is an abomination – moral, political and otherwise and bespeaks of diabolical racism unfettered. In Western Australia, the mother of jailers, one in 13 of Aboriginal adult males is in prison today. A disturbing statistic is that one in 6 of the State’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living have been to jail.