A plea to loosen the shackles of Indigenous youth

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Indigenous youth are 17 times more likely to be incarcerated than other Australians. There are children as young as 10 being held in watch houses across Australia, some for many weeks at a time. Around the country, human rights groups are calling for the government to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14.

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