Aboriginal youth were detained at a rate of 23 times that of non-Indigenous kids in 2018/19, according to a Productivity Commission report on government services.
Aboriginal youth are being detained at a rate 23 times that of non-Indigenous young people in the justice system.
The federal government spent more than $916 million on the sector in 2018/19, with the majority of money going towards detention costs.
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