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Andrew Forrest
Fortescue Metals Group chairman Andrew Forrest. Picture: Marie Nirme
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AUSTRALIA'S richest man, Andrew Forrest, has tacitly criticised the nation's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, for employing foreign workers instead of indigenous labour.
The Fortescue Metals Group chairman told The Australian newspaper his "heart bleeds" when indigenous Australians are overlooked for jobs filled by employees from overseas.
Without mentioning Hancock Prospecting's Ms Rinehart by name, Mr Forrest said he hoped other mining magnates would reconsider their enthusiasm for temporary skilled migrants.
"I would say to people who look to 457 (visas): first recognise that Australia has changed and you must change with it and look first to your indigenous brothers and sisters to fill those jobs,'' he told The Australian.
Western Australia always had a higher incarceration rate of Aboriginal people compared to the rest of Australia, and rates have nearly doubled between 1990 and 2010 [15].
A parliamentary report in 2010 found the rate of Aboriginal people jailed per 100,000 people in Western Australia was 2,483, while the figure for African Americans in the United States is 2,290 [15].
What you cannot get away from is that the rate of Indigenous imprisonment in Western Australia is far greater than anywhere else in the country and indeed it compares with the worst rates of imprisonment, of African Americans in the United States. —Bob Debus, chair of the federal inquiry into the over-representation of Indigenous young people in the criminal justice system [13]
With high levels of alcohol and substance abuse, lack of services of any kind, high unemployment rates, low levels of education and child abuse it is no surprise that there is a high rate of reoffending. 80% of jailed Aboriginal male juveniles, 64% of Aboriginal female juveniles and 70% of adult Aboriginal males reoffend [15].
"Research indicates that time in a juvenile justice centre is the most significant factor in increasing the odds of recidivism [reoffending]," says Father Chris Riley, founder of Youth off the Streets [21].
