Böcker av Russell Marks

Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more likely.Featuring vivid case studies and drawing on a deep sense of history, Black Lives, White Law explores Australia's extraordinary record of locking up First Nations people. It examines Australia's system of criminal justice - the web of laws and courts and police and prisons - and how that system interacts with First Nations people and communities. How is it that so many are locked up? Why have imprisonment rates increased in recent years? Is this situation fair? Almost everyone agrees that it's not. And yet it keeps getting worse.In this groundbreaking book, Russell Marks investigates Australia's incarceration epidemic. What would happen if the institutions of Australian justice received the same scrutiny to which they routinely subject Indigenous Australians?

Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating - at his straight - shooting, scumbag - calling, merciless best. Paul lets rip - on John Howard: ''The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.'' On Peter Costello: ''The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg.'' On John Hewson: ''[His performance] is like being flogged with a warm lettuce.'' On Andrew Peacock: ''...what we have here is an intellectual rust bucket.'' On Wilson Tuckey: ''...you stupid foul - mouthed grub.'' On Tony Abbott: ''If Tony Abbott ends up the prime minister of Australia, you've got to say, God help us.'' And that's just a taste.