Nerita Waight
Warning: This article contains the names of Indigenous people who have diedWith at least 630 Indigenous people having died in custody since the landmark Royal Commission 35 years ago, experts and advo...
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...
The annual Closing the Gap Day is intended, at least in principle, to mark steady progress toward eliminating the entrenched disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
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...
Minority groups have called for terrorism laws to adequately protect their communities as the national security watchdog weighs up changes to how terrorist acts are defined.
The passing of new legislation in Victoria aimed at preventing the permanent separation of Aboriginal children from their families has been welcomed as a long-overdue first step toward addressing entr...
Prisoners on remand in Victoria are being transferred between facilities across the state to ease overcrowding in police cells following the government's new bail laws, with one Indigenous man held ac...
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.
Bail laws and punitive policing which are driving more Aboriginal people into prison on remand are becoming "increasingly dangerous," experts have warned.
Australia's spending on youth detention has increased by $400 million in five years, with the former National Children's Commissioner describing the system as a "devastating policy failure".
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"...