Karly Warner
Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek has defended new legislation which would allow welfare payments to be cancelled for people accused of serious crimes, describing criticism of the move as "unbe...
A review welcomed by a peak Aboriginal legal body has found the centuries-old principle which presumes children aged 10 to 14 not capable of criminal intent should be formally enshrined in New South W...
More than 100 organisations and individuals have urged New South Wales MPs to support a public inquiry into introducing a Human Rights Act, arguing the state is falling behind the rest of the country.
The highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody ever recorded by one state in a single year has been described as a "profoundly distressing milestone" in a rare public statement from the State Coro...
Legal experts say the Commonwealth has the constitutional authority to raise the age of criminal responsibility nationwide, as states and territories continue resisting Closing the Gap incarceration t...
The number of children in detention in New South Wales has jumped by more than 30 per cent, sparking warnings from the state's peak Indigenous legal body that the government is ignoring evidence-based...
The peak body for Indigenous legal services has joined more than 20 organisations in urging the Northern Territory Government to implement all recommendations from the coronial inquest into the shooti...
Legal and justice experts and Senator Lidia Thorpe have warned of the danger proposed NT laws represent to children in the Territory. Senator Thorpe, a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent...
Raising the age of legal responsibility to 14 is a "common-sense" step for both children and the broader community, the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT says.
The Prime Minister must take national leadership on Indigenous justice, legal advocates say, as state and territory governments continue to introduce policies which increase the incarceration of Abori...
The New South Wales government is failing to fund life-saving legal services amid "unprecedented" changes to the court system, the state's peak Indigenous legal service says.
The New South Wales Government's standalone Aboriginal Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Plan has been commended as a "positive first step" by the Aboriginal Legal Service of NSW and the ACT.
Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has called for all recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody to be implemented, as pressure mounts for an independent investigation i...