Labour will allocate $90 million for justice reforms to reduce the incarceration of Aboriginal people and the number of Aboriginal deaths in custody if it wins government.
Labour plans to establish a national justice reinvestment program and design programs that focus on rehabilitation, domestic violence and school retention in order to divert those at risk of offending away from the justice system.
Labor’s Indigenous affairs spokesperson Linda Burney says leadership on justice reinvestment is necessary for tackling the root causes of crime.
“State and territory governments want to do something about the underlying causes that are driving the incarceration rate and justice reinvestment does that,” said Burney.