Please be advised that the "Excessive Incarceration of Aboriginal People" Conference has been cancelled for December 2011.  The conference may be back in 2012.  

Sorry for any inconvience caused. 

What is the "Excessive Incarceration of Aboriginal People" Conference?

The Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (inc) (ALRM) is concerned about the excessive incarceration of Aboriginal people in South Australia and across the nation.

The ALRM Board and their CEO, Neil Gillespie, express their continued frustration at the locking up of Aboriginal people without adequate resources from Government to provide appropriate legal representation.

The ALRM have advocated long and hard for the early intervention and prevention, justice reinvestment and restorative justice programs for Aboriginal people in South Australia, and now want to bring their knowledge into the National arena.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee and other UN Agencies continue to express concern to Australia about its continued mistreatment of Aboriginal people, and in particular the continuing denial of access to justice and excessive incarceration rates of Aboriginal people throughout the country.

The outcome of the national conference is to identify initiatives and present these to Government in the expectation of influencing Government Policy in regards to justice issues within Australia. 

About ALRM 

Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (ALRM) is an independent Aboriginal community controlled organisation governed by an all Aboriginal Board. The Board of 10 members is appointed from Aboriginal communities from metropolitan and country centres across South Australia.

Through the provision of legal services and associated activities, ALRM promotes legal, cultural, economic, political and social rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as dispossessed peoples within South Australia.

ALRM's major aim is to advance the legal interests of Aboriginal people in South Australia and to ensure that those interests and rights are protected by the law and not adversely affected by abuse or misuse of any powers under the law.

ALRM provides comprehensive legal advice and assistance through its staff lawyers and, where appropriate, private lawyers, to people of Aboriginal descent and their spouses.

ALRM also acts as a lobby group, and where able, implements support programs that assist in addressing some of the issues known to contribute to Aboriginal people coming into contact with the criminal justice system.

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