Police

- I am of East Timorese background, the police automatically I think I am a drug dealer when they see me walking in the Street. I am sick of being asked for ID. (East Timorese Born 21 year old)

- I will be walking in my neighbourhood and just because I am black I get pulled over by the police and asked for ID and where I am going. In my culture we don't look directly in people's eyes when you speak to them, you look down as a form of defererence. (Eritrean Born 17 year old)

There have been numerous citings by refugee young people of Horn of African backgrounds of getting in trouble with the police because they don't look at police in the eye when pulled over.

Police need to go beyond seeing "ethnic communities" as problems and racially generalising communities. Greater education for police graduates needs to be undertaken to decrease misunderstanding between young people and police.