BBusiness Read More Darwin residential youth justice operator sues NT government for breach of contractDecember 17, 2025 An Aboriginal-owned business behind a service housing children and teenagers on bail and in the youth justice system…
AAustralia Read More United Nations delegation warns of Australia’s treatment of prisoners, detainees and breach in human rightsDecember 13, 2025 A delegation of United Nations inspectors has delivered a scathing assessment of Australia’s treatment of prisoners and other…
AAustralia Read More Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979December 10, 2025 Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody in four decades. New data from the…
HHeadlines Read More Cleveland Dodd’s care in Unit 18 ‘inhumane’, coroner examining youth detention death findsDecember 8, 2025 Western Australia’s first recorded death in youth detention was preventable and the notorious facility where he died should…
AAustralia Read More Ombudsman delivers youth offending warning to Victorian government in extraordinary interventionNovember 14, 2025 Victoria’s prison watchdog has made an extraordinary intervention into Premier Jacinta Allan’s crime crackdown, warning it leads to…
BBusiness Read More Queensland prisons watchdog report lays bare state of separation rooms at youth detention centresNovember 12, 2025 Queensland’s prisons watchdog claims separation rooms at youth detention centres are becoming “soiled with urine” because they lack…
AAustralia Read More Inside a children’s court, a magistrate hears of fearful victims and young people living with traumaSeptember 30, 2025 “I’m at my wit’s end,” the magistrate told the court. You could hear a pin drop as the…
HHeadlines Read More NT to reinstate use of spit hoods in youth detention, eight years after royal commission sparked banJuly 28, 2025 The Northern Territory government has flagged it will reinstate the use of spit hoods on young people in youth…