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The appearance of every child commissioner in Canberra on Monday was vital to highlighting the inhumane treatment of children in Australia, an inquiry has heard.
Evidence, rather than "uninformed or deliberately misconstrued narratives," is needed to drive policy around youth justice, a senate hearing has been told.
Western Australian Commissioner for Children and Young People Jacqueline McGowan-Jones has expressed her disappointment with the state government's response to her inquiry into the operating model of...
A Curtin University student has reportedly been suspended and banned from campus for one year for confronting Mark McGowan over the treatment of Aboriginal children in WA detention centres Banksia Hil...
94 per cent of people in Western Australia don't know children as young as ten can be incarcerated, a new study has revealed. Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) found very low knowledge of...
The Western Australian Commissioner for Children and Young People says she's been "deeply concerned" about youth detention since she began her role, while urging transformation from punishment to reha...
In the last five years 154 issues have been raised by children with the Western Australian ombudsman regarding the state's troubled youth justice system—most of them concerning the conduct of pr...
The Western Australian Commissioner for Children and Young People Jacqueline McGowan-Jones has rejected claims by Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia that she gave a "glowing" recent review of B...
The peak bodies for doctors and lawyers in Australia have said they are concerned about the increased politicisation of youth crime in the country and have demanded action on the "national tragedy" of...
Children as young as ten-years-old in youth detention in Western Australia face racism and miss out on seeing their families during lockdowns, a new report by the state's Commissioner for Children and...
A Senate inquiry into missing Aboriginal women and children will be tabled in the senate on Thursday, after two years of traumatic testimony from experts, survivors, and countless people directly impa...
The media unit for the Corrections Department in Western Australia employs so much "spin," the truth is lost, and the entire department is "incompetent," the longest serving President of the Children'...
Western Australian children are being sounded out for their opinion on the voting age, in stark contrast to most decisions that are made on behalf of children without consulting them.