The share of wealth held by Australia’s bottom 40% has fallen significantly in two decades while 3.3 million people live below the poverty line, according to a damning report by researchers at Monash University that found inequalities across wealth, housing, health and education were worsening.
Robertson said “no one in their right mind” believed that Kerr’s actions could have justified a prison sentence yet the case still reached crown court in a criminal justice system “in chaos” because of years of underfunding.
The Australian, UK-based human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson has called for an investigation into the English prosecution service decision to charge Sam Kerr, calling it an “attack on free speech”.
The prime minister is due to say this morning that the national apology to the Stolen Generations made by Kevin Rudd in 2008 was a day “that mattered in the life of our nation”.
Australia now has proportionately more people below the poverty line than Canada and the UK, and education outcomes were widening between richer and poorer children.
