Indigenous Incarceration
The United Nations' finding that the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the criminal justice system "reflects systemic and structural racial discrimination" is another sign the Prime Ministe...
New data has prompted the head of an Indigenous justice service to accuse the Tasmanian Government of failing Aboriginal people. Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service CEO, Jake Smith, said new adult pris...
New data shows that in 2024-25, the ACT Government spent an estimated $36.2 million on detaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Alexander Maconochie Centre and the Bimberi Youth J...
The annual Closing the Gap Day is intended, at least in principle, to mark steady progress toward eliminating the entrenched disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Warning: The following article contains references to suicide, which may be distressing to readersAustralia's Indigenous incarceration rates continue to rise sharply, while the proportion of children...
Almost 140 children under the age of 14 were held in detention in Western Australia in the last financial year without ever being sentenced, whilst mental health outcomes across the state decline.
The Northern Territory Government says falling crime rates in Alice Springs demonstrate its controversial justice policies are delivering results, as the federal government considers using funding pre...
First Nations people are being disproportionately held on remand under Australia's increasingly restrictive bail laws, according to new research highlighting the impact of tougher "law and order" refo...
Australia's spending on youth detention has increased by $400 million in five years, with the former National Children's Commissioner describing the system as a "devastating policy failure".
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...
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains names and images of Aboriginal people who have died.
The end of 2025 marks 34 years since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, a landmark inquiry that delivered more than 300 recommendations aimed at protecting some of the most v...
Twelve months ago, National Indigenous Times described a "horror" year for the Northern Territory — one that began with a curfew in Alice Springs and ended with a "record" number of people impri...