Justice
Finding Justice: From Courtroom to Country, the new book from Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt AO released last week, explores "what real justice means, and what it might yet become".
Victoria Labor's pre-election commitment to see youth offenders pulled from the community and placed in a "tough love" rehabilitation program is mandatory sentencing dressed up as political leadership...
Three young inmates have safely come down from the roof of the notorious Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre. On Friday the youth climbed on to the roof of the Western Australia children's prison.
Western Australia Department of Justice staff are reportedly trying to get three young inmates to climb down from the roof of the notorious Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre.
For a government that this year has been vocal about protecting children, including lambasting all and sundry who dared to criticise its contentious child protection reforms, the Northern Territory's...
Governments are refusing scrutiny of their prisons because they know "human rights abuses are happening regularly inside these horror houses", says federal Senator Lidia Thorpe.
Since the election of the CLP, the Northern Territory has imprisoned more of its citizens per capita than almost any other jurisdiction in the world, second only to El Salvador.
Aboriginal people in South Australia are disproportionately entangled in the justice system, including being over 12 times as likely to be imprisoned, which is likely to be having an impact on their a...
The Federal Government must respond to Queensland's new bail laws, the peak body for Indigenous legal services says, arguing that more children will be locked up for longer under the latest reforms.
A director of a disgraced funeral insurance group that ripped off thousands of Aboriginal customers has been handed a 15-year ban from managing corporations after he and other executives were found to...
To properly address First Peoples' over-incarceration and reduce interactions with the criminal justice system, community-led solutions and early stage prevention must come first, Just Reinvest NSW's...
Victoria has made more progress in advancing Indigenous rights than any other jurisdiction in Australia. However, those achievements sit precariously as the state heads to an election on November 28.
Western Australia's Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services has tabled its latest inspection report on Melaleuca Women's Prison, finding a prison "under significant and sustained pressure while...