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Exclusive: Human rights of Queensland children 'decimated' by successive governments
This is the second part of National Indigenous Times' analysis on human rights i...
Dechlan Brennan 9 Oct 2025
50% increase in children under 14 being housed in Queensland adult watch houses
The number of children aged 13 or under being housed in Queensland watch houses...
Dechlan Brennan 8 Jan 2025
13-year-old Aboriginal boys kept in Queensland adult watch houses for over 25 days, emails reveal
Two 13-year-old Indigenous children were kept in adult Queensland watch houses f...
Dechlan Brennan 15 Oct 2024
Qld
LNP plan to send "wayward" youth to camps criticised as power "overreach"
Youth advocates have criticised a $50 million election pledge by the Queensland...
Dechlan Brennan 8 Oct 2024
No evidence to suggest treating children as adults will lower crime, experts say
Experts say law and order policies proposed by Queensland's Liberal National Par...
Dechlan Brennan 19 Sep 2024
Calls for Queensland to stop housing children in adult watch houses grow louder in wake of horrific footage

Calls for the Queensland government to stop housing children in adult watch houses have grown louder in light of harrowing footage showing an intellectually disabled First Nations child being held in...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 19, 2024
Advocates call for an end to children being kept in adult watch houses after latest shocking footage

The fall out into revelations a First Nations 17-year-old was struck with a baton by police at the Richlands watch house in Brisbane have continued to reverberate, with police behaviour being explicit...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 10, 2024
Queensland LNP's plan to treat children like adults in criminal justice system slammed

The Queensland opposition has been criticised for pledging to sentence many youth criminals as adults, with human rights and advocacy arguing it would only make the community less safe.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 8, 2024
Queensland government urged to release children from police watch houses

A justice coalition has thrown their weight behind proposed legal action against the Queensland government for failing to protect children in watch houses, and have called for all children from across...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 2, 2024
Queensland government slammed for removing "last resort" rule for jailing children

Human Rights groups and advocates have slammed the Queensland government's decision to remove the "last resort" qualification for incarcerating children, arguing they have prioritised "politicised pol...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 1, 2024
Legal action looms over children allegedly assaulted in police watch houses

A youth advocacy group is considering legal action after accusing the Queensland government of failing to protect children in watch houses. The government has been told it must take urgent action amid...

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Fraser Barton Apr 29, 2024
'No one cares' : Outrage at the Queensland Government for failing to protect vulnerable children before their death

The following article contains graphic and disturbing details. A damning report has laid bare a failure to adequately support children by authorities as they move through state care and incarceration...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 18, 2024
Youth justice methods under the microscope as groups urge Queensland government to change approach to avoid further incarceration

Human rights, Indigenous and legal groups have written submissions to the Queensland Government, urging them to move away from the 'tough on crime' approach that has done little to stem youth incarcer...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 15, 2024
Bail offences for young people skyrocket in Queensland

Information obtained by the National Indigenous Times has thrown light on the extent children are being charged by Queensland police for breaches of bail.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 14, 2023
More prisons not the answer: Anti-prison initiative slams Palaszczuk government's decision to build new youth remand centre

The Queensland Government's announcement of a new remand centre to deal with the increasing number of children in detention has been criticised as leading the state away from improvements in community...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 12, 2023
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