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This chapter describes programs and services developed by the Queensland Government to focus on the causes of crime in Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal communities. The initiatives include the Torres […]
This chapter describes programs and services developed by the Queensland Government to focus on the causes of crime in Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal communities. The initiatives include the Torres […]
This is the New South Wales Government’s response to the Noetic Group’s ‘Strategic review of the New South Wales juvenile justice system’ (2010). The Government acknowledges the review’s finding that […]
The Inquiry finds the Northern Territory child protection system is in crisis for several reasons: including insufficient resources; the number of notifications of children formally identified as at risk which […]
The Family Relationships Commission (FRC), a project of the Cape York Welfare Reform, holds conferences with individual community members who are welfare recipients and who have been identified as failing […]
Legislative bills of rights in Australia include the Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT) (‘HRA’) and the Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic) (‘Charter’). Focusing on the rights and the interpretive method set […]
Following the release of Magistrate Sue Gordon’s report in 2002, the Premier of Western Australia, Dr Geoff Gallop, announced funding of $75 million for initiatives aimed at combating child abuse […]
Just Futures (This Strategy) aims to improve safety in Queensland’s Indigenous communities and to reduce the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as victims and offenders and in […]
This government document sets out the Queensland Government’s response to the Cape York Justice Study (2001) by Justice Fitzgerald, which found serious problems relating to alcohol and violence in Cape […]
This interview with Winsome Matthews, chairperson of the New South Wales Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee, focuses on the implementation of the Committee’s new Aboriginal Justice Plan. The Plan involves a […]
Sexual assault of children has long-term devastating consequences for those who have experienced it, as well as their families. The preparation of a whole-of-government plan has been prompted by concerns […]