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