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Indigenous kids' rights cut after sentencing changes
Children in a jurisdiction's youth justice system, who are overwhelmingly Indige...
Lucinda Garbutt-Young 26 May 2026
NT youth justice changes risks traumatising vulnerable children, legal organisation warns
Changes to the Northern Territory's youth justice laws, which would give police...
Dechlan Brennan 22 May 2026
Indigenous Game Changers Program driving brighter futures in the Hunter
A community-led research initiative centred in the Hunter region of New South Wa...
Sponsored Content 19 May 2026
Scholarship helps future youth worker give back to community
Proud Kamilaroi and Wiradjuri woman Mia Cafe hopes to use her youth work studies...
Joseph Guenzler 18 May 2026
Koorie Academy to mark 50 years of NAIDOC with 2026 Outback Tour
Koorie Academy Basketball has announced its 2026 Outback Tour, which will celebr...
Joseph Guenzler 18 May 2026
Yawardani Jan-ga helping young people heal with horses

Yamatji woman and domestic and sexual violence subject matter expert Kyalie Moore recently visited a Kimberley equine-assisted learning program as part of her national 'Stamp It Out' Tour.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler May 12, 2026
Youth Sector Forum to champion self-determination

AbSec - NSW Child, Family and Community Peak Aboriginal Corporation and Mounty Aboriginal Youth & Community Services (MAYCS) have united to host the Quarterly Sector Youth Forum in Sydney on May 1...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre May 12, 2026
The world is watching Australia breach its human rights obligations, legal body says

The United Nations' finding that the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the criminal justice system "reflects systemic and structural racial discrimination" is another sign the Prime Ministe...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 8, 2026
Indigenous teens excited by chance to influence real-world policy

Two Indigenous teenagers are among 59 people from across Western Australia hand-picked to have a chance of influencing legislation across the state.

David Prestipino David Prestipino May 1, 2026
Seed secures renewed Bank Australia funding for Indigenous climate justice campaign

Bank Australia's renewed backing of Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network will help the organisation deepen its work with frontline communities and continue building a national movement of young Abori...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler May 1, 2026
Thorpe blasts NT government, departments for refusing to face youth justice inquiry

Federal Senator Lidia Thorpe says the failure of the Northern Territory government and its departments to appear before a youth justice inquiry amounts to contempt.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 28, 2026
'My Dreamtime Match': New children's book puts kids and culture at centre field

A new children's book by Ngiyampaa and Wiradjuri man Taylor Hampton and his wife Jacinta Daniher is bringing First Nations culture and AFL together through story, sport and identity.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Apr 28, 2026
No NT government department or official to appear before Senate inquiry into youth justice

An inquiry into youth justice hearings in Darwin this week will proceed without any Northern Territory government departments appearing or making submissions, despite the over-representation of Indige...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 27, 2026
Social justice commissioner warns Murri Watch funding cut puts children at risk

The Queensland Government's decision to withdraw funding from Murri Watch's youth cultural support program has drawn criticism from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Ka...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Apr 23, 2026
First Nations youth program combines footy, leadership and road safety

A long-running partnership between Transport for NSW and AFL NSW/ACT will continue until 2028, with the renewed agreement set to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people through foot...

Jackson Clark Jackson Clark Apr 21, 2026
Data reveals ACT Government spending more than double on locking up First Nations people than on Aboriginal community services

New data shows that in 2024-25, the ACT Government spent an estimated $36.2 million on detaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Alexander Maconochie Centre and the Bimberi Youth J...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 20, 2026
Pressure mounts on PM to address youth incarceration 'crisis' as Indigenous Labor conference begins

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.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 18, 2026
Commissioner for Indigenous children condemns 'unreasonable force' used by off-duty police officer on 13-year-old

Footage of a 13-year-old Aboriginal girl being pinned to the floor and thrown into a train seat by an off-duty WA Police officer is "deeply disturbing and unsettling to watch", Australia's Indigenous...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 17, 2026
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