Spit Hood
First Peoples Disability Network has condemned the Northern Territory government's youth justice overhaul, reviving spit hoods and abolishing the principle that detention be a last resort, warning the...
Australia's National Children's Commissioner and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner are backing calls from child health and legal experts for the Northern Territory gove...
Legal and justice experts and Senator Lidia Thorpe have warned of the danger proposed NT laws represent to children in the Territory. Senator Thorpe, a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent...
The Justice Reform Initiative has slammed the Northern Territory government's latest amendments to youth justice laws as "a dangerous and regressive step which will drastically escalate children's inc...
This report contains the name of deceased persons. The National Network has condemned the Northern Territory Government's proposed overhaul of the Youth Justice Act 2005 and Youth Justice Regulations...
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has grilled the federal government on their responsibility to uphold international human rights law in relation to youth justice.
Members of the Australian National Preventive Mechanism - an alliance of human rights and justice organisations, including custodial inspectors, ombudsmen and human rights commissions - have raised th...
Spit hoods will be used on children in the Northern Territory, the Police Commissioner has confirmed. The practice is widely criticised and the 2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention...
Justice and mental health advocates have condemned the incoming Country Liberal Party government's 'law and order' plans for the Northern Territory, including lowering the age of criminal responsibili...
The family of Selesa Tafaifa, who died after being placed in a spit hood, have called on authorities to enact change in an emotional plea after the inquest into her death finished hearing evidence on...
NSW has become the latest jurisdiction in Australia to completely ban spit hoods with legislation passing parliament on Thursday evening. The decision means the device, which has been described as inh...
A coalition of Indigenous, legal and human rights groups have written to the Victorian Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes expressing a "deep concern" for the state's ongoing failure to implement the Option...
A Victorian Indigenous teenager has been subjected to wearing a spit hood in an adult prison, renewing calls for them to be banned. A report tabled last week in the state's parliament by Victoria's Co...