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While our current legal system serves the majority of our country well, there are some members of society who experience problems with our law; a major group in society that suffers from such problems is our Indigenous population. This paper will primarily focus on the legal system as it impacts upon Indigenous Australians. Topics that will be discussed will be the over-representation of these people in the judicial and prison system, plus the paper will also address socio economic issues, health issues, educational issues and living standards that place this race of people at a distinct disadvantage in the law. This paper will also make the recommendation that all Indigenous Australian’s sentenced to six months or less will in fact not be sent to prison, but be punished by their own communities’ traditional law. Currently the Australian Indigenous population is drastically over represented in our justice and corrective systems. The Queensland Government in 2004 created the Law......

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