Incarceration
How can media stop fuelling racism against CALD communities?
A media commentary yesterday indicated that culture is a risk factor of youth incarceration, referring to the overrepresentation of the......
Funding worries for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal service #JusticeByUs
The Natsils legal service has been on a 5 year revolving funding model that allows it some certainty for providing......
Children aged 10 in the Brisbane Watch house
The disturbing stories of children, some as young as 10, kept in Brisbane watch houses for weeks seem to continue......
Peter Greste leads campaign for Journalistic Freedom
A relieved Bahrainian refugee and soccer player Hakeem al- Araibi arrived back in Australia today after spending many weeks detained......
Serco to run new women’s prison in Queensland
Overcapacity in Queensland’s prisons are at record high rates. To address the issue, the Queensland government has commissioned private service......
Indigenous offenders in poetry and music workshops
The Red Room Company brings their Unlocked prison poetry program to indigenous offenders. Poet Lionel Fogarty and musician Joe Geia......
Victorian Government Reaching Out to Youth Offenders
A Victorian task force will speak to every Aboriginal youth in the state’s juvenile centres to create law reform. Fifty-three......
Lawyers Release Sweeping Study of Indigenous Deaths in Custody
Despite a Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody over 25 years ago, numbers have only increased across all states......
Age of responsibility should be 14 not 10
Throughout Australia’s criminal jurisdictions, the age at which a person can be locked up as the result of a crime......
Demands for Koori Courts
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in New South Wales are calling for specialised Koori Courts to reduce the over-incarceration......