Indigenous deaths in custody are at their highest in fifteen years. This is just one of the findings of the Productivity Commission’s updated Report on Government Services, which also found that overcrowding in state-owned and managed Indigenous housing is five times worse than the national average for public housing.
Standing behind a podium reading “STOP THE BOATS”, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in March launched the Conservative government’s latest piece of anti-refugee legislation. Speaking of his concern for the world’s most vulnerable people—and the country’s allegedly broken border control system, which allows criminal gangs free entry—he said that the only fix is the Illegal Migration Bill, which has now passed the House of Commons.