Amnesty Australia
'Abuse, restraint and isolation': Campaign pushes national minimum standards for children in custody
A new campaign calling for enforceable national minimum standards to protect the human rights of chi...
Dechlan Brennan
4 Aug 2026
Human Rights Act a must as UN slams Australia's age of criminal responsibility
Australia's human rights framework — which allows children as young as 10 to be incarcerated in most...
Lack of consequences from Kumanjayi Walker coronial findings disappointing, calls for oversight of NT Police continue to grow
In the wake of the coronial findings into the 2019 police shooting of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker,...
'Completely unconscionable': Outcry over Queensland's ‘cruel’ youth justice laws
Indigenous children in Queensland already face a system "geared against them," advocates say, as cal...
Public hearings into Senator Thorpe's 'Genocide Bill' begin in Canberra
Public hearings into Senator Lidia Thorpe's 'Genocide Bill' will begin in Canberra on Tuesday, heari...
'Abuse, restraint and isolation': Campaign pushes national minimum standards for children in custody
A new campaign calling for enforceable national minimum standards to protect the...
Dechlan Brennan
4 Aug 2026
Human Rights Act a must as UN slams Australia's age of criminal responsibility
Australia's human rights framework — which allows children as young as 10 to be...
Dechlan Brennan
28 Jan 2026
Lack of consequences from Kumanjayi Walker coronial findings disappointing, calls for oversight of NT Police continue to grow
In the wake of the coronial findings into the 2019 police shooting of 19-year-ol...
Dechlan Brennan
9 Jul 2025
'Completely unconscionable': Outcry over Queensland's ‘cruel’ youth justice laws
Indigenous children in Queensland already face a system "geared against them," a...
Dechlan Brennan
22 May 2025
Public hearings into Senator Thorpe's 'Genocide Bill' begin in Canberra
Public hearings into Senator Lidia Thorpe's 'Genocide Bill' will begin in Canber...
Dechlan Brennan
30 Jul 2024
Distressing footage of an Indigenous child being forcibly removed from a home and put into the back of a police van has led to Indigenous human rights advocates to call for an immediate investigation.
The shocking findings out of WA's Banksia Hill youth detention facility brought before parliament on Tuesday have sparked renewed calls to end solitary confinement in Australia.
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