This first 2022 Annual Report (the Report) reflects on action to close the gap in Queensland and informs the next iteration of Queensland’s Closing the Gap Implementation Plan. The Report […]

The Annual Report includes updated statistics on Indigenous offending and reoffending in Queensland, as well as broader discussions on Indigenous justice programs.

In September 2005 an internal review of the Murri Court was commissioned to assess the court’s effectiveness and whether its operations can be improved with a view to making it […]

Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the issues of relations between police and Indigenous people, the detention of Indigenous people in police custody and the overrepresentation of […]

For many societies, the consumption of alcohol and its related outcomes are deeply embedded in cultural, economic, legal and health systems. Yet alcohol is not an ‘ordinary commodity’. It is […]

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 […]

The Sentencing Spotlight examines sentencing outcomes for choking, suffocation or strangulation in a domestic setting offences under s 315A of the Criminal Code (QLD) finalised in Queensland courts between 2016-17 […]

Indigenous children and youth are extremely disadvantaged on most indices of health and wellbeing: they have higher rates of health risk behaviours, early school drop-out, suicide, juvenile offending, family fragmentation, […]

This presentation outlines the functions of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service and what they consider a responsive criminal justice system for Indigenous offenders should contain. These are […]

This report presents key findings and recommendations from research conducted in 2011-2014 by the Indigenous Legal Needs Project (ILNP) in Queensland, Australia. The ILNP aims broadly, and on a national […]