Sentence examples for representation of aboriginal from inspiring English sources

In a statement to Guardian Australia, the police minister, Liza Harvey, said the government, "remains committed to reducing deaths in custody and the over representation of Aboriginal people in the justice system".

On Wednesday Barnett said in a statement that as a result of his public promise, "a team within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet comprising representatives from the Department of ­Corrective Services, WA Police and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is reviewing deaths in custody and the high representation of Aboriginal people in Western Australia's prison system".

Last years' electing of Victorian Greens member Lidia Thorpe to Parliament demonstrates shifts in the political representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

While the issue of a low representation of aboriginals in science has not impacted negatively on my decision to pursue a science career, there still exists the possibility that a lack of role models and underrepresentation of aboriginal people in scientific fields could impact negatively on the decisions of future generations of aboriginal youth.

Roach says there is a difficult interplay between the ongoing trauma of colonisation and over-representation of Aboriginal Australians in crime and domestic violence.

Our aim is to eliminate the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care within a generation.

Before that Braybrook – a lawyer – was working in Victoria's Department of Justice on the Aboriginal justice agreement, a partnership between the state government and the Koori community to minimise the over-representation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system.

The Western Australian legislation has since been described as having "a discriminatory and disproportionate effect, leading to the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, poor people and vulnerable people, in the Western Australian prison system" (Law Society of Western Australia, 2016).

The report calls for a strategy to protect and promote Aboriginal languages, asks the government to address the substantial over-representation of aboriginal people in Canadian prisons, and to issue a new royal proclamation to, amongst other things, "repudiate concepts used to justify European sovereignty over Indigenous lands".

This cycle contributes to the over-representation of Aboriginal Australians in prison and higher rates of recidivism.

When adjustments were made for differences in baseline characteristics (including an over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in remote living patients), distant patients achieved higher cures rates with antimicrobial agents alone and lower rates of catheter removal or permanent haemodialysis transfer.