Australia

Past studies have found that young people in detention centres are particularly vulnerable to mistreatment in the absence of independent monitoring and advocacy mechanisms. As a monitoring mechanism the Commission […]

This report sets out the evidence supporting the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) Report Card on the wellbeing of young Australians. The ARACY Report Card is unique, […]

The Full Court of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory can agitate and ventilate issues in the Northern Territory. With particular reference to two well covered media cases – […]

This report contains an alphabetical listing and description of past (published since 1991), current and planned data linkage studies relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The publication provides […]

A number of theories have been put forward to explain the high level of violence amongst Australia’s Indigenous population. Up until 2002, lack of suitable data on the risk factors […]

This handbook is designed to assist individuals, families, leaders, services and communities to protect Indigenous children from family violence and child abuse by presenting relevant information about these issues in […]

Authors: Cappo, David

The South Australia Police Operation Mandrake highlighted the very significant issue of serious repeat offending by a small number of young people. This report considers serious youth repeat offending in […]

Authors: Martin, Joanna

This paper describes the work of the Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS), a community legal centre, fully funded by the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, providing legal advice and representation to […]

Authors: Loban, Heron

These are the PowerPoint slides used as the basis of a conference paper presented at the ‘Cultural healing in criminal justice service delivery: an identification of best practice and innovation […]

In the United Nations Development Programme Gender-related Development Index, Australia ranks in the top five across 179 countries, suggesting that women are achieving similar outcomes to men in life expectancy, […]