Youth Incarceration
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.
A new strategy aimed at diverting children away from the justice system and toward community-led responses has been launched in New South Wales.
Community leaders across New South Wales have launched a series of videos calling on the state government to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 and invest in community-led support services...
Murri Watch's support service for Indigenous children held in Queensland police watch houses will end this year after the state government pulled its funding.
Systems across Queensland are continuing to fail vulnerable children, the state's Indigenous children's commissioner has warned, citing punitive laws, rising demand and instability as key drivers.
Western Australian justice advocates have joined counterparts across the country in calling for federal intervention in the youth justice system, condemning what they describe as "reactionary" tough-o...
Australia's youth justice and child protection systems are in crisis, a Senate inquiry has been told, with witnesses warning that tough-on-crime policies are being driven by media narratives rather th...
A Special Report by South Australia's youth detention watchdog has warned that the frequent use of audio-visual link (AVL) technology in the Youth Court is undermining children's ability to meaningful...
The Commonwealth Government must take a more active role in holding the Northern Territory Government accountable for youth justice outcomes, according to the Territory's largest provider of Aborigina...
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 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...
A New South Wales Judge has sensationally called for a review of the employment of the Director of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) after identifying information about a 17-yea...
As a young boy, Oscar* was removed from his family home and placed in out-of-home care, moving repeatedly through placements that worsened his trauma, before eventually settling in a safe, stable and...