Un Convention On The Rights Of The Child
Across Australia, Aboriginal children are being disappeared by the carceral state. They are transferred without notice. Moved in secret. Taken from their families, their Country, their lawyers, and th...
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre has condemned the secret decision of the Tasmanian government to transfer Aboriginal youths from Ashley Youth Detention Centre to an adult prison facility, a transfer e...
The Australian Human Rights Commission's new review of solitary confinement and similar practices in youth detention across Australia has found the use of the dangerous practice is widespread and disp...
The Coronial inquest into the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd should have been a watershed moment. We should be saying 'never again' but the WA government is refusing to listen to recommendations...
Australia's first National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People, Sue-Anne Hunter, has condemned the passage of new Victorian legislation which will allow ch...
Economic empowerment of Indigenous communities, much touted by the federal government, is hindered by the absence of constitutional recognition and constitutionally protected rights for First Nations...
Senator Lidia Thorpe has urged Minister Malarndirri McCarthy to follow through on her commitment to impose sanctions on states and territories that undermine Closing the Gap targets, saying Victoria "...
The Australian Child Rights Taskforce has written to the United Nations to support a complaint lodged by the Human Rights Law Centre and Indigenous international law experts Professor Megan Davis and...
Aboriginal Australia is at a crossroads. Traditionally federal Labor governments have offered more on Indigenous policy than the Coalition. There is a dawning realisation among many of us that these d...
Queensland's outgoing human rights commissioner has accused the state's non-Indigenous leaders of "walking the state backwards" from reconciliation.
The Law Council of Australia is urging the Federal Government to address alleged human rights violations against Indigenous Australians. Proposals affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peopl...
The federal government has appointed Australia's first permanent National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People.
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...