Members of Project 10% met with the Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda in May to talk about the goals of the Campaign. The meeting looked at lobbying strategies and how the issues of incarceration can be added to the National agenda. For more information call the office on 3844 9800 or contact Murri Watch on 3844 1540.

ANTaR National has today cautiously welcomed improved protections against racial discrimination in the Northern Territory but argues there is a long way to go in the transition from intervention to sustained investment in community development.

As part of your commitment to truth and reconciliation in Queensland, please find the time to write to our political leaders and the Media to ask some of the questions about justice and rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the State

Please read the following extracts taken from the Coroners Report into the Mulrunji Inquest released on the 14th May 2010. ANTaR member and community campaigner, Monique Bond, has been following the Inquests closely. You can contact Monique to find out more through the ANTaR Qld office on 3844 9800 or office@antarqld.org.au.

ANTaR Qld made a Submission to the 2010 Review of Police Powers and Responsibilities emphasising the need for the Qld Police Service to take account of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment rates in Qld, the third worst in the country, and to employ diversionary and cautionary options whereever possible.

ANTaR Qld and the Project 10% co-chair Ken Georgetown met with the Attorney General, Cameron Dick, to discuss the goals of Project 10% - reducing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Imprisonment Rates in Qld by 10% a year for 10 years. The discussion included practical measures required to address these issues and accountabiulities under the National Framework on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice. For more information please contact the ANTaR office on 3844 9800 or email office@antarqld.org.au.

Members of the Project 10% lobbying group met with the Qld Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek and the Shadow Attorney General Lawrence Springborg in April, to discuss the failure of the government to keep to the 2001 Justice Agreement promises. There was a committment by both parties to keep the government accountable and to find a way forward to reduce the devastating  imprisonment rates in Qld. For more information please contact the ANTar office on 3844 9800 or email office@antarqld.org.au