Indigenous incarceration
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Cathy McLennan, who represented Indigenous young offenders as a barrister for two decades, says real solutions can only be found outside the courtroom
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Noongar 18-year-old Ben Hurst finally has a clean slate after being under youth justice orders for most of his teenage years
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Follow a 13-year-old Indigenous boy through the youth justice system and see what happens when he is cautioned, charged or placed in custody
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Clifton Wayne Penny was tasered while being arrested in Perth. Prison advocate Mervyn Eades has released video of him in hospital more than a week later
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The outgoing chairman of the prime minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council has worked with five PMs and has some candid parting thoughts for Malcolm Turnbull. ‘Sometimes you’ve got to shake things up,’ he tells Calla Wahlquist
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ABC’s flagship current affairs show had a blinder of a year – continuing its groundbreaking journalism and grabbing sometimes unwelcome attention
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Fitzroy Legal Service calls for Daniel Andrews’ government to remove the remaining children from Barwon prison
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He led some of Australia’s biggest inquests in his 40-year legal career. Now in a revealing interview Ian Gray reflects on Rosie Batty’s grief, his dispute with NT ministers – and why levels of youth incarceration are ‘a national shame’
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Guardian Comment Network Seeing Ms Dhu footage: how photographs can argue for human rights
Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham for the ConversationIn revealing what Ms Dhu suffered in a Western Australian police cell, her family hope the graphic proof will arouse public opinion
Topics
- Indigenous Australians
- Prisons
- Australian police and policing
- Western Australia
- Youth justice
- Northern Territory
- Indigenous peoples
- Royal commission into the protection and detention of children in the Northern Territory
- Deaths in custody
- Young people
- Membership (Australia)
- Northern Territory politics
- Australian politics
- New South Wales
- Perth
- Western Australian politics
- Health
- Children
- Victoria
- Sydney
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