Youth Justice
Manandanji woman Dr Lorelle Holland says prioritising prevention over punishment could reduce child incarceration and avoid youth detention costs of up to $3,000 a day per child.
Imagine sharing a video of a protester up a tree, with a caption cheering them on, forgetting you ever posted it, then finding out your post may be criminalised under new proposed laws that you had no...
A new campaign calling for enforceable national minimum standards to protect the human rights of children in custody has been launched. Coming in the wake of Closing the Gap data showing the rate of I...
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service has raised concerns about the Productivity Commission's latest Closing the Gap data. Released on Wednesday evening, the Commission's 2026 Closing the Gap report...
When Cornwallis screened as part of the First Nations Shorts program at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, it marked another milestone for a film that refuses to tell an easy story.
The overwhelming majority of Indigenous children held in custody are unsentenced, new data shows, with First Nations young people continuing to be incarcerated at disproportionate rates.
Keeping younger children out of detention and improving community safety in Victoria requires evidence-based action rather than the "reactive" responses that have dominated the state's approach, Victo...
The Old Ways New Ways program has had a remarkable impact on the lives of young Indigenous people in WA, and this month achieved an important new milestone.
The minister responsible for Western Australia's beleaguered prison system is set to resign from politics this week. Paul Papalia has served as Minister for Corrective Services since June 2023, after...
Hundreds of pages of documents produced to the Senate reveal the federal government's talking points for pushing back against calls to raise the age of criminal responsibility to align with internatio...
The Australian Theatre for Young People's (ATYP) acclaimed production, Saplings, is set to make its Victorian premiere at The Show Room, Arts Centre Melbourne July 31-August 1.
Key points: - A Representative Complaint has been filed with the Australian Human Rights Commission on behalf of roughly one hundred victims of alleged child sexual abuse in Western Australia's youth...
Children in a jurisdiction's youth justice system, who are overwhelmingly Indigenous, are going without legal representation and languishing in over-crowded prisons, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.