Aboriginal Legal Service
SiS Tasmania, an Aboriginal-led Family Violence and Prevention Legal Service, has welcomed the federal government's budget commitment to reduce family, domestic and sexual violence.
Self-determined solutions to reduce the over-representation of Indigenous people in custody have been ignored in Victoria's budget, the state's Indigenous legal service says.
SiS Tasmania has called on the Tasmanian Government to do more to support Aboriginal people exposed to family violence - particularly women, children and families.
Security cameras at northern Tasmania's troubled Ashley Youth Detention Centre were offline during a "critical incident" just days after the facility was set on fire, right to information laws have re...
A new evaluation shows NSW Police Force Youth Action Meetings (YAMs) are not working; and are even leading to worse outcomes for some children.
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.
The family of a Noongar man who died in police custody says the coronial inquest into his death has failed to understand "how police treat Aboriginal people".
Western Australian judicial authorities hope rising case delays will ease across the West Kimberley court circuit after calling in an extra magistrate.
The following article contains the name and images of an Indigenous person who has died. Just days before he died in police custody, Jeffrey Winmar made a call to his father with a simple plea: "Dad...
New South Wales Parliament will hold an inquiry into whether the state should introduce a Human Rights Act, after both the government and the Coalition signalled their support.
The New South Wales crossbench has called for an inquiry into proposed legislation which would require government bodies to consider the impact of human rights in all decisions, laws and policies they...
Minority groups have called for terrorism laws to adequately protect their communities as the national security watchdog weighs up changes to how terrorist acts are defined.