SYDNEY, Jan 24 (AFP-NT) - Australia is continuing to violate the most fundamental human rights of Aborigines, the country's representative to the UN Human Rights Commission said Wednesday. "The position of indigenous people in Australian society should be our major human rights concern," Justice Elizabeth Evatt told the Evatt Foundation, which promotes human rights, youth education and research into social issues. Justice Evatt was a founding member of the foundation and is a niece of its namesake, the late Herbert Evatt, a prominent politician in the 1950s. Justice Evatt said the shocking situation of Aboriginal Australians did not appear to be improving. "Indigenous Australians are dying in custody at the highest rate yet recorded," she said. "Life expectancies are 17 to 20 years less than non-indigenous people." Their basic rights were being violated -- the right to life, liberty, justice and equality, she said. AFP /AA1234/240500 GMT JAN 96

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