‘Tough, Tougher, Toughest’
Welcome to Good Mob Mad System.
This website is very new-it’s a young pup still finding its place in the world. Over the coming weeks and months I’ll be adding stories and ideas to create a more mature and interesting space to explore.
In Australia today, we have a very serious justice problem. There seems to be a running competition within states and territories to see who can be toughest on crime-read toughest on Aboriginal crime. Politically it works. In the past 12 months it’s handed election victories to conservative parties in both Queensland and the Northern Territory.
In every way it hurts us; it creates many more problems than it solves. Despite false political claims that tough on crime measures affect everyone equally, they disproportionately target Aboriginal people-they are an ongoing attempt to break the spirit of Aboriginal communities around the country.
Incarceration rates for Aboriginal people are already the highest-by a long way-of any group in the world.
How much ‘tougher’ on crime can we get? What are we hoping to achieve?
We all know that the current policies and rhetoric have little to do with keeping us all safer.
In this space we will explore the issues surrounding Aboriginal over-incarceration from as many angles as we possibly can.
We whitefellas have created this system, we condone it and we perpetuate it.
We have a lot of work to do to right this wrong.