Colten Boushie’s death and the subsequent acquittal of his killer has fuelled loud calls for reforms to Canada’s criminal justice system and its treatment of the Indigenous. Why has it taken so long?
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Indigenous youth are over-representation in juvenile detention centres, and excluding them from education could make this worse.
Cape York Partnership founder Noel Pearson told Q&A that Indigenous Australians were ‘the most incarcerated people on the planet Earth’. Is that right?
The NT youth justice royal commission’s interim report did not deliver any findings or make any recommendations. Nor did it reflect young people’s personal stories.
The report focus on the government’s own policies fails to acknowledge genuine differences of opinion on key issues such as constitutional recognition and income management.
To reduce female recidivism rates, we need to address inmates’ histories of trauma and abuse.
The official data show incarceration rates of Indigenous people have doubled since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 25 years ago. But the problem may be even worse than that.
It is surely extraordinary it took a Four Corners program, excellent as it was, to force the attention of Northern Territory and federal politicians on to the scandal of the NT detention system when most…
Around 20% of Aboriginal births in Western Australia between 1996 and 2012 weren’t registered, new research shows. This has many social and health ramifications for their future.
Results of a new audit tell a tale that is, sadly, all-too-familiar across the Top End of Australia.
The statistics used to discuss deaths in custody can make us lose sight of the fact that it’s people we’re talking about. People with families and friends, who died prematurely – and often brutally.
Accountability for the deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at the hands of the state remains absent 25 years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s report.
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Executive Director, The University of Melbourne
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Dean, Medical School, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Social Research and Policy, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Senior Fellow (Indigenous Programs), The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
