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Social media ban could have greater impacts for Indigenous youth, but online safety remains key
It's been five months since measures were implemented to ban under 16s from acce...
Jarred Cross 11 Apr 2026
WA Commissioner calls for urgent early intervention as child outcomes decline
Almost 140 children under the age of 14 were held in detention in Western Austra...
Dechlan Brennan 18 Mar 2026
Young Western Australians share their views on social media ban
Marking three months since the federal government introduced its social media ba...
Giovanni Torre 10 Mar 2026
60 per cent of children in WA child protection Indigenous, new report reveals
Nearly 60 per cent of all children in out-of-home care in Western Australia in 2...
Dechlan Brennan 21 Mar 2025
Senate report largely ignores expert calls for youth justice reform
An interim parliamentary report into children in prison has failed to recommend...
Dechlan Brennan 28 Feb 2025
Commissioners paint bleak picture of justice system's treatment of children

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.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 4, 2025
“In what other first world country, do we see children dying in custody?” Youth justice hearings open in Canberra

Evidence, rather than "uninformed or deliberately misconstrued narratives," is needed to drive policy around youth justice, a senate hearing has been told.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 3, 2025
WA Children's Commissioner disappointed by government response to inquiry into state's notorious youth prisons

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...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 4, 2024
Student suspended for one year after confronting former WA Premier over youth justice crisis

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...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 21, 2024
Study finds majority of WA respondents were unaware children as young as 10 can be incarcerated

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 4, 2024
New approach prioritising child wellbeing in youth detention urgently needed, WA's Children's Commissioner says

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 21, 2024
Exclusive: WA ombudsman received 131 complaints from children in youth justice system over five years

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 17, 2024
WA Children's Commissioner hits back at Police Minister's claim she gave "glowing" review of Banksia Hill

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 30, 2024
Peak bodies for doctors and lawyers call for raising of the age, end to politicisation of youth justice

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 23, 2024
'No programs, no education': Testimony from young children in WA detention paints picture of systemic failures

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 15, 2024
Indigenous women urge change as report on disappearing First Nations women and children to be released

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 14, 2024
"Incompetent" Justice Department has "no will" to change, WA’s longest serving Children’s Court President tells Cleveland Dodd inquest

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'...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 24, 2024
WA children and young people called on to have their say about the voting age

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.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 19, 2024
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