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Since colonial times Australia has been an incarceration nation where lock ’em up is preferred to rehabilitation – Julianne Schultz (www.theguardian.com)
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The fearful reaction to the high court decision that people cannot be held in indefinite detention is a classic example

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[-] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Charles Darwin reported in 1836 that as a place of punishment the colony had failed but as “a means of converting vagabonds, most useless in one hemisphere, into active citizens of another and thus given birth to a new and splendid country – a grand centre of civilisation – it has succeeded to a degree perhaps unparalleled in history.”

I love that.

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