Alternatives to Prison

Community release for most fragile detainees a positive step

Media Release | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Friday 25th November 2011, 3:36pm
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The government's decision to begin transferring asylum seekers out of detention and into the community is a positive one, the Australian Greens said today.

Greens applaud Human Rights Commission's inquiry into detained Indonesian children

Media Release | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Monday 21st November 2011, 5:31pm
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The Australian Greens have welcomed news the Australian Human Rights Commission will investigate the detention in adult prisons of Indonesians who are crew members of asylum seeker boats and claim to be children.

21 11 11 Sarah at Senate doors on Greens' bill to stop Indonesian children being put in Australian adult prisons

Greencast | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Monday 21st November 2011, 10:58am
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Audio from Sarah's door stop outside the Senate entrance, Monday 21/11/11.

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Mental health expert confirms detention providers not following immigration department protocols

Media Release | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Friday 18th November 2011, 3:36pm
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An expert advising the federal government has told an inquiry there is confusion between detention contractors and the Immigration Department about protocols for handling detainees with mental illnesses, the Australian Greens said today.

Greens back Jakarta’s call for all Indonesian children to be released from Australian jails

Media Release | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Wednesday 16th November 2011, 6:13pm
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The Australian Greens have today welcomed the news another Indonesian boy, Dion Domun, has been released by a Melbourne court after people smuggling charges against him were dropped.

End the shame of locking up Indonesian children

Blog Post | Blog of Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 15th November 2011, 10:27am
by ParisLord in

If an intellectually-disabled Australian boy was detained in an Indonesian prison without charge for two years before being quietly released and deported, Australians would be fuming. They'd be as upset as they are over the boy in a Bali prison on drugs possession charges.

People smuggling bill misleads Australian public

Media Release | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young
Friday 11th November 2011, 2:53pm
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The government's hastily-drafted Deterring People Smuggling Bill 2011 misleads Australians because it does nothing to disrupt smuggling or stop the trade's kingpins from exploiting asylum seekers and poor Indonesian fishermen, the Australian Greens said today.

Statement acknowledging 20 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

Blog Post | Blog of Rachel Siewert
Monday 18th April 2011, 1:10pm
by ChrisRedman in

I start by acknowledging that this statement is being made on the land (boodja) of the Wadjuk Nyoongar people. I pay my respects to the traditional owners of this land and the elders past and present. It always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

Greens send clear message on deaths in custody – enough is enough

Media Release | Spokesperson Rachel Siewert
Friday 15th April 2011, 1:50pm
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The Australian Greens have called for effective justice reinvestment to become a key initiative in reducing the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia’s prisons.