Youth
Western Australia Department of Justice staff are reportedly trying to get three young inmates to climb down from the roof of the notorious Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre.
For a government that this year has been vocal about protecting children, including lambasting all and sundry who dared to criticise its contentious child protection reforms, the Northern Territory's...
States and territories have been urged by federal ministers to allow United Nations human rights investigators access to government-operated facilities.
WA Attorney-General Tony Buti has praised Fitzroy Crossing's Night Space, a community-led approach to supporting young people which has coincided with a 50 per cent reduction in youth-related offendin...
Governments are refusing scrutiny of their prisons because they know "human rights abuses are happening regularly inside these horror houses", says federal Senator Lidia Thorpe.
Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi and Wiradjuri woman Dr Alethea Beetson has been named the 2026 Queensland University of Technology Outstanding Indigenous Australian Alumnus for her contribution to arts, culture...
Indigenous Business Australia will explore new economic empowerment initiatives for First Nations people aged 18 to 30 after its latest impact report found a generation already buying homes, starting...
Ganyarra Rugby League Academy has raised more than $40,000 to support young people in Innisfail through its first charity golf day and auction dinner.
The Australian Federal Police's (AFP) warning of radicalisation among children has prompted advocates to call for community-led support over punitive laws and imprisonment.
In and out of jail for half of his young life, Chris quickly learnt to have eyes in the back of his head to survive the violence between cells.
"Punitive shifts" in Victoria's youth justice system have led to worsening outcomes for Aboriginal children, who remain over-represented in the system, the state's First Nations Children's Commissione...
Three years on from the Voice referendum defeat, "we can't shy away" from a feeling things are going backwards, but there's no better time than now to pursue the framework which led to the proposal, a...
A focus on youth crime and punitive responses ahead of the Victorian election shows a lack of "leadership and accountability", legal advocates say.