Nerita Waight
The United Nations' finding that the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the criminal justice system "reflects systemic and structural racial discrimination" is another sign the Prime Ministe...
First Peoples communities continue to be the hardest hit by "populist, blunt and harmful" laws, the Australian Human Rights Commission says. While there has been progress on some Closing the Gap targe...
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.
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.