National Justice Project
More than a quarter of reported incidents of racism targeting Indigenous Australians involved children and young people, according to new data, as experts say Australians need to confront the racism t...
A "long overdue" reform being introduced to New South Wales Parliament on Wednesday to close a legal loophole in the state's Crimes Act will make it possible to prosecute offenders who commit acts of...
A coronial inquest into the death in custody of 41-year-old Martu woman Dannielle Lowe has been presented with evidence of the impact of unconscious bias against Aboriginal people in clinical decision...
The Voice referendum saw First Nations people experience increasingly open and hostile levels of racism—much of it in the media and online, a report has found.
It isn't a matter of "should" there be a truth and justice commission at the Commonwealth level, but "how", a senate inquiry has heard. There remains a cultural load of families who submit their deepl...
The jailing of an Australian grandmother in Japan is a "kick in the guts" with WA Premier Roger Cook expressing hope for the convicted drug smuggler's potential appeal.
A NSW Police officer who assaulted an Aboriginal teenager continues to be employed by the force, 18 months after they were found guilty. Last week, Ryan Barlow, 30, had his appeal for assault occasion...
Youth incarceration shouldn't be seen as a last resort, but one we "actively resist," leading human rights lawyers and Indigenous legal and policy experts have said.
Handing down his findings in the inquest into the death of Alf Eades on Monday, WA Coroner Michael Jenkin was highly critical of the lack of supervision and care that Mr Eades received while in custod...
The legal organisation supporting the family of Ricky-Lee Cound, a Noongar man who died in custody in Western Australia aged 22, says the coronial inquest into his death reinforces "the critical need...
The family of Ricky-Lee Cound, a 22-year-old Noongar man who died in Hakea prison in March 2022, has called for justice for Ricky, and for all families who have lost loved ones in custody.
More than two years after his death in custody, an inquest will begin on Monday into the passing of Ricky-Lee Cound. The Noongar man was only 22 years old when he died in Hakea Prison in Western Austr...
The Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, in partnership with the National Justice Project, has launched the Call It Out app, a new platform aimed at documenting and addressing rac...