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A new report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council has found persistent failures by Australian governments to implement recommendations from royal commissions and coronial inquests are...
With the ACT becoming the first Australian jurisdiction to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14 on Tuesday, Indigenous legal groups say it stands in stark contrast to regressive poli...
Systemic failures and a punitive approach to law and order by the Northern Territory government have created conditions in which the death in custody of a disabled Warlpiri man in Mparntwe/Alice Sprin...
New laws in Queensland which will see children as young as ten treated as adults have been labelled "gobsmacking" by human rights groups. The proposed legislation will remove the principle of detentio...
Jail has never helped a child, the peak body for Indigenous legal services said after the Northern Territory parliament voted to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 10.
The overwhelming majority of Indigenous, medical, and human rights groups have told the national youth justice inquiry a dramatic overhaul of the system is needed, including raising the age of crimina...
The decision by the Victorian government to abandon plans to raise the age of criminal responsibility has been slammed by independent Senator Lidia Thorpe, who called it a "weak backdown".
The Queensland LNP Opposition have vowed to repeal 'detention as a last resort' if they win the state election, ushering in an approach to youth crime that contradicts the recommendations of the Royal...
Australia's only First Nations-led coalition of legal, health and family violence prevention experts, Change the Record, has responded to the findings and recommendations of a new Productivity Commiss...
The South Australian government's consideration in raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 12 has drawn criticism from Indigenous and Human Rights groups for being out of step with commu...
Approaches to youth justice for the youngest children who can be charged in Australia have little therapeutic or developmental benefit and fly in the face of international human rights advice.
The United Nations' anti-torture watchdog has urged Australia to stop the excessively high number of people being held in jails whilst on remand or awaiting sentencing, as well as a ban on spit hoods.
The following article contains the name of a person who has died2022-23 was the deadliest year on record for First Nations people in prison, with a new report leading to increased calls by human right...