Detention
Changes to the Northern Territory's youth justice laws, which would give police the power to charge, question and detain young people for up to 48 hours without a legal guardian present, will "expose...
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 territory government's treatment of children has gone backwards since a damning royal commission report almost nine years ago, an inquiry has been told.
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.
An inquiry into youth justice hearings in Darwin this week will proceed without any Northern Territory government departments appearing or making submissions, despite the over-representation of Indige...
The peak body for Indigenous legal services says the Prime Minister must place an emergency youth justice summit on the agenda at the inaugural National Indigenous Labor Conference.
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 federal government's "entirely untrue" response to calls for an urgent national youth justice summit has been slammed as ignoring legal advice.
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...
New Department of Education, Children and Young People (DECYP) data indicates Indigenous children and young people continue to be disproportionately represented in northern Tasmania's Ashley Youth Det...
Tasmania's Aboriginal Legal Service has reaffirmed its opposition to the state's treatment of children in the justice system after the Tasmanian government released a consultation document for its new...
A Special Report by South Australia's youth detention watchdog has warned that the frequent use of audio-visual link (AVL) technology in the Youth Court is undermining children's ability to meaningful...
A respected Tasmanian Elder has called for senior Aboriginal intervention to support Indigenous youth detained at Northern Tasmania's troubled Ashley Youth Detention Centre.