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The peak body for Indigenous legal services says the Prime Minister must place an emergency youth justice summit on the agenda at the inaugural National Indigenous Labor Conference.
Governments are using "harsh, punitive policies" to lock up children while ignoring the evidence, the country's former Children's Commissioner has told a Senate inquiry.
The federal government's "entirely untrue" response to calls for an urgent national youth justice summit has been slammed as ignoring legal advice.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing renewed calls to convene an urgent national youth justice summit, as states and territories continue rolling out policies critics say are harming Indigenous c...
Governments are being urged to abandon fear narratives and return to evidence-based approaches, with advocacy bodies warning the latest Closing the Gap data reflects the "daily reality" for many Abori...
The federal government has again failed to meaningfully acknowledge the overincarceration of Indigenous people, First Nations legal groups say, arguing its approach is not improving community safety.
A new book by Professor Eddie Cubillo - Defending the defenceless: Indigenous self-determination and legal services in Australia - explores the complex relationship between Indigenous self-determinati...
Bail laws and punitive policing which are driving more Aboriginal people into prison on remand are becoming "increasingly dangerous," experts have warned.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has criticised Australia for the "almost constant increase" in the number of people held on remand and the country's "very low age of criminal responsibility"...
The Prime Minister must take leadership to stop state and territory governments from passing laws that put more children in prison, the peak body for Indigenous legal organisations says.
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services has reiterated its grave concerns, alongside over 100 legal experts and community groups, to the Federal Government's Social Security...
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...
Indigenous legal services have raised alarm over new legislation before South Australia's parliament, warning it risks trapping children in the justice system for life.