Aboriginal Incarceration
Federal Senator Lidia Thorpe says the failure of the Northern Territory government and its departments to appear before a youth justice inquiry amounts to contempt.
The Northern Territory must commit to transparency over people being held in watch houses and end the long-term detention of people in such facilities, a leading Indigenous legal group says.
New data has prompted the head of an Indigenous justice service to accuse the Tasmanian Government of failing Aboriginal people. Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service CEO, Jake Smith, said new adult pris...
A new strategy aimed at diverting children away from the justice system and toward community-led responses has been launched in New South Wales.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing renewed calls to convene an urgent national youth justice summit, as states and territories continue rolling out policies critics say are harming Indigenous c...
The annual Closing the Gap Day is intended, at least in principle, to mark steady progress toward eliminating the entrenched disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Systems across Queensland are continuing to fail vulnerable children, the state's Indigenous children's commissioner has warned, citing punitive laws, rising demand and instability as key drivers.
Warning: The following article contains references to suicide, which may be distressing to readersAustralia's Indigenous incarceration rates continue to rise sharply, while the proportion of children...
Western Australian justice advocates have joined counterparts across the country in calling for federal intervention in the youth justice system, condemning what they describe as "reactionary" tough-o...
Australia's youth justice and child protection systems are in crisis, a Senate inquiry has been told, with witnesses warning that tough-on-crime policies are being driven by media narratives rather th...
Agencies overseeing prisoners in New South Wales have failed to implement formal partnerships, shared decision-making and a healing framework, despite these measures being required under Closing the G...
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article includes the name and image of an Aboriginal person who has died.
Prisoners on remand in Victoria are being transferred between facilities across the state to ease overcrowding in police cells following the government's new bail laws, with one Indigenous man held ac...