Rights Of The Child
The decision to legislate the role of the National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young People marks a significant step toward strengthening protections for the rights, safety...
The Commonwealth Government must take a more active role in holding the Northern Territory Government accountable for youth justice outcomes, according to the Territory's largest provider of Aborigina...
The following piece is a call to action from organisers of the Boorloo/Perth rally of January 26. January 26 is a day of mourning where we remember the many who have resisted and suffered under the yo...
The United Nations Human Rights Council has criticised Australia for the "almost constant increase" in the number of people held on remand and the country's "very low age of criminal responsibility"...
Across Australia, Aboriginal children are being disappeared by the carceral state. They are transferred without notice. Moved in secret. Taken from their families, their Country, their lawyers, and th...
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre has condemned the secret decision of the Tasmanian government to transfer Aboriginal youths from Ashley Youth Detention Centre to an adult prison facility, a transfer e...
The Australian Human Rights Commission's new review of solitary confinement and similar practices in youth detention across Australia has found the use of the dangerous practice is widespread and disp...
I write this piece to Aboriginal children and young people. It has been an honor to be the Commissioner for Aboriginal children and young people in Victoria for over three years, your Commissioner.
The Coronial inquest into the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd should have been a watershed moment. We should be saying 'never again' but the WA government is refusing to listen to recommendations...
This report contains references to sexual assault. More than two decades on from his first known offence, serial predator Charlie Contarino was recently sentenced to six years in prison in the NT Supr...
Australia's first National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People, Sue-Anne Hunter, has condemned the passage of new Victorian legislation which will allow ch...
The Victorian Government has responded to a major recommendation of the Yoorrook Justice Report by announcing legislation making every Minister and Department, along with the Chief Commissioner of Pol...
Young people held in Western Australia's notorious Banksia Hill Detention Centre have climbed on to the roof of the Canning Vale facility. Reports indicate at least six of the children held at Banksia...