Shahleena Musk
Children's commissioners from across Australia have used a federal parliamentary inquiry to warn racism against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is widespread, deeply harmful and contrib...
The overwhelming majority of submissions to a Northern Territory parliamentary inquiry into proposed child protection reforms have urged the government to reconsider changes critics say will "ultimate...
The Northern Territory's child protection system is failing to keep many children safe after they are removed from their families, a new report says, with high rates of harm, repeated incidents, major...
The Northern Territory Government must urgently halt proposed changes to legislation designed to ensure children removed by the government maintain a connection to family and culture, two Indigenous c...
A territory government's treatment of children has gone backwards since a damning royal commission report almost nine years ago, an inquiry has been told.
An inquiry into youth justice hearings in Darwin this week will proceed without any Northern Territory government departments appearing or making submissions, despite the over-representation of Indige...
The lives of children in detention from Central Australia have been significantly affected by the Northern Territory Government's decision to transfer them more than 1,500 kilometres away from their f...
The Northern Territory's Child Commissioner has criticised the treatment of an Aboriginal teenager in custody, who was denied food and access to services while being kept alone in a cell for more than...
Australia's leading First Nations child advocates are calling on Federal and State Governments to step up and protect children and young people's human rights at a national youth justice conference in...
A focus on prisons will lead to a "bleak" future under the Country Liberals, Labor has claimed, adding the NT government is "delusional" about the Territory's issues with crime.
New bail laws in the Northern Territory are set to be introduced and passed on Wednesday, with parliament reconvening for an urgent session in the wake of the fatal stabbing of a shop owner last week.
The Northern Territory's Child Commissioner is urging the implementation of strategies known to work "to ensure this will never happen again," in the wake of the alleged murder of a 71-year-old man in...
Evidence, rather than "uninformed or deliberately misconstrued narratives," is needed to drive policy around youth justice, a senate hearing has been told.