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incarceration of Indigenous young people during the late 1980s and early 1990s. TheNSW Government noted that the proportion of Indigenous young people in detentioncentres had increased in the four years to 1994 (interim submission page 81). Noexplanation was given as to why this may have occurred.All Australian States and Territories have submitted quarterly returns to theAustralian Institute of Criminology on the number of juveniles held in detention centressince 1982. However, it is only since 1993 that national information has been includedwhich identifies whether a young person is Indigenous or not, thus permittingcomparisons to be made.Nationally some 36% of youth in juvenile correctional institutions on 30 June 1996were Indigenous. The rate of incarceration was 540 per 100,000 Indigenous young peoplecompared to a non-Indigenous rate of 25 per 100,000.Young people in juvenile corrective institutions, 30 June 1996Indigenous youth Non-Indigenous youth TotalState No a % Rate b No a % Rate b No a %NSW 102 30 746 238 70 36 340 100Vic 4 6 132 66 94 13 70 100Qld 84 61 594 53 39 14 137 100WA 61 57 734 45 43 23 106 100SA 18 22 572 65 78 42 83 100Tas 6 23 301 20 77 37 26 100NT 9 69 110 4 31 29 13 100ACT 1 14 324 6 86 17 7 100Aust 285 36 540 497 64 25 782 100Sources: Australian Institute of Criminology submission 686 and Atkinson and Dagger 1996.a These figures do not include young people over the age of 17 years who are held in juvenile correctionalcentres. Some jurisdictions (such as NSW) have significant numbers of young people in this category.Nationally, at 30 June 1996 an additional 37 Indigenous young people 18 years or older were held injuvenile institutions (Atkinson and Dagger 1996).b Rate per 100,000 of the relevant population. Rates quoted by the Australian Institute of Criminology arecorrect to two decimal places. The above rates have been rounded for ease of reading.This table shows the number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people held,the percentage of the total which each group comprised and the rate of incarceration foreach group. The majority of young people in juvenile correctional institutions in NT(69%), Queensland (61%) and WA (57%) were Indigenous.