Bail
A year after the introduction of its controversial bail laws, the Northern Territory Government says crime has dropped "significantly" across the Territory, despite ongoing criticism from legal, Indig...
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The Northern Territory's controversial bail laws — which have driven a sharp increase in the number of people held on remand, the majority of them Aboriginal — are set to be challenged in...
A historic Treaty signing — the first in the country's history — and the delivery of a monumental truth-telling report has been bookended by controversial law reforms and claims of betraya...
State and territory governments have been urged by their own officials to overhaul bail laws to help reduce the climbing incarceration rates of Indigenous people and meet key Closing the Gap targets.
Victoria's prisons are holding record numbers of people who haven't been sentenced, with more than one in three inmates now behind bars awaiting trial or sentencing — nearly double the proportio...
The raising of the age of criminal responsibility in Victoria to 12 officially came into effect on Tuesday, but Aboriginal and human rights groups continue to say the reform fall short of what is need...
The passing of Victoria's second tranche of bail reforms will push vulnerable people into prison and further criminalise disadvantage, advocates have warned.
For a man so imposing in size, the retired Nate Jawai does not joke about how he had little time to grow up. Jawai's teenage years were almost like a blur, living in the rural outpost of Bamaga in nor...
A coalition of Indigenous and legal organisations has criticised Victoria's proposed second tranche of bail reforms, calling it a politically motivated "tough on crime" response that targets marginali...
A confrontation is brewing between federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy and Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro, with signs Canberra is preparing to use its f...
A rally on the steps of Victorian Parliament has heard personal accounts of incarceration and fears for the future as the state government tabled further bail reforms inside on Wednesday.
The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) has called for the suspension of Commonwealth funding for remote policing and justice operations in the Northern Territory, warning it is the onl...