Dr Hannah Mcglade
The overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the criminal justice system "reflects systemic and structural racial discrimination", the United Nations has said. Despite making up only 6.
Western Australian justice advocates have joined counterparts across the country in calling for federal intervention in the youth justice system, condemning what they describe as "reactionary" tough-o...
The Northern Territory's largest Indigenous legal organisation has welcomed UN criticism of states and territories' "tough on crime" policies, which they says fail to make communities safe.
The Senate's decision to censure Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi for a protest over Israel's actions in Gaza has drawn criticism, particularly when contrasted to the lack of penalty for One Nation Senat...
Legislation designed to help bring Australian laws in line with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been defeated.
In the last five years 154 issues have been raised by children with the Western Australian ombudsman regarding the state's troubled youth justice system—most of them concerning the conduct of pr...
Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and registered Aboriginal businesses in Western Australia are now eligible to apply for funding that will enable the delivery of Aboriginal led initiative...
Recent pro-Israel commentary from former Olympian and Senator Nova Peris has sparked renewed Indigenous expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
While racism in policing has long been denied by authorities, we're now witnessing revelations of racist policing across Australia, particularly from coronial inquiries into the deaths of Aboriginal p...
State, federal and territory ministers have launched a partnership agreement with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership Group to implement 'Safe and Supported: The National Framework fo...
Leading human rights and child welfare experts have slammed the "shocking" scene of a grown man allegedly keeping Aboriginal children as young as six detained by tying them with zip-ties.
WA's Corrective Services Minister has been condemned by legal professionals for comments criticising judges and magistrates over their sentencing of juvenile offenders.
Leading Indigenous justice advocates say the assault of a child in Unit 18 by a much larger and older prison guard captured on CCTV footage drives home the urgent need for immediate and long-term chan...