Since colonial times Australia has been an incarceration nation where lock ’em up is preferred to rehabilitation | Julianne Schultz
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The fearful reaction to the high court decision that people cannot be held in indefinite detention is a classic example

The fearful reaction to the high court decision that people cannot be held in indefinite detention is a classic example

  • kerrypacker@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Charles Darwin reported in 1836 that as a place of punishment the colony had failed but as “a means of converting vagabonds, most useless in one hemisphere, into active citizens of another and thus given birth to a new and splendid country – a grand centre of civilisation – it has succeeded to a degree perhaps unparalleled in history.”

    I love that.