Matters of Urgency

The majority voted against a motion introduced by Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe, which means it failed.

Motion text

That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency:

The policing, surveillance, criminalisation, and detention of First Peoples children is a humanitarian crisis and the youth carceral system is operating in breach of this country's human rights obligations. Children need culture, country, connection, and family, not prisons. The billions spent on police, prisons and surveillance must be urgently re-invested into First Peoples self-determined community programs and services to provide appropriate wrap-around support to women, children, and families.