Indigenous Incarcaration
Two leading human rights experts have labelled Queensland's youth justice system "incompatible with basic child rights," in a scathing assessment of a state which incarcerates more Indigenous children...
A focus on prisons will lead to a "bleak" future under the Country Liberals, Labor has claimed, adding the NT government is "delusional" about the Territory's issues with crime.
Footage of an ACT Policing officer telling an Aboriginal teenager he "wouldn't have the guts" to "neck" himself has been condemned by the Territory's Indigenous children's commissioner, calling it a "...
The building of a new prison in the Northern Territory has been labelled an "expensive and misguided" approach to the overcrowding crisis. Since being elected last year under a "tough on crime" mantra...
Warning: This report discusses suicide, mental health, and abuse. If you or anyone you know is affected, there are helplines at the end of the article.
Warning: This report discusses suicide, mental health, and abuse. If you or anyone you know is affected, there are helplines at the end of the article.
Watch Houses in Alice Springs and Palmerston are still being used as makeshift prisons despite the Northern Territory government's promises. In promoting a series of new "tough on crime" policies, the...
An increasing number of state and territory governments are enacting laws which will see children as young as ten spend time in jail, as data reveals almost two-thirds of all young people in detention...
The ACT's Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People has said she was not allowed into a youth prison. In a statement on Wednesday, Commissioner Vanessa Turnbull-...
Nearly 60 per cent of all children in out-of-home care in Western Australia in 2023-24 are Indigenous, a new report has found. Launched on Friday by WA's Commissioner for Children and Young People Jac...
Heide Museum of Modern Art has announced a major exhibition in partnership with The Torch, set to run from 5 April to 20 July 2025. Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience will feature works by...
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