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Youth justice

August 2024

  • Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan

    Victoria gets closer to raising age of criminal responsibility to 12 and banning spit hoods for children

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan speaks to the media

    Jacinta Allan’s latest backflip has some MPs worried Labor is reacting ‘to every scare campaign’

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan

    ‘Betrayal’: Indigenous and legal groups condemn Victoria’s backflip on raising the age

  • Liana Buchanan is the Victorian commissioner for children and young people

    Failure to learn from ‘African gangs’ furore puts community at risk, Victoria’s children’s commissioner says

  • A father’s quest for answers after police botched investigation into son’s death

  • Full Story
    How a botched murder investigation left two families broken – Full Story podcast

  • Queensland police launch review after revelations of ‘abominable’ treatment of children in watch houses

  • A botched murder investigation left a family broken and a 15-year-old boy in jail for a year

  • Queensland’s community safety bill may breach children’s human rights, parliamentary committee finds

  • Queensland police data shows youth crime at near-record lows. So why the ‘tough on crime’ election talk?

July 2024

  • The Greek goddess of justice, outside the Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law precinct in Brisbane

    Young man with severe intellectual disabilities to spend two years in Queensland prison without facing trial

  • Illustration for Ben Smee feature on watch house.

    In the box
    A teenager faces court in regional NSW, but her suspected cognitive impairment goes unrecognised

  • Samantha Cutler, mother of Declan Cutler (centre) departs from the County Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Wednesday, July 24, 2024.

    ‘Incalculable inhumanity’: teens jailed for Melbourne street attack murder of 16-year-old Declan Cutler

  • Sue Duncombe

    In the box
    Crime and nourishment: the Koori court giving help and hope to traumatised kids

  • In the box
    Inhumane treatment of kids in custody won’t make Queenslanders safer. Empathy must triumph over fear

    Natalie Lewis

  • In the box
    ‘Harrowing’ footage sparks calls for Queensland government to remove children from police watch houses

  • Teenager kills himself at Scottish young offender institution

  • In the box
    What is FASD, and why do so many children with it end up in Australia’s justice system?

  • Full Story
    Screaming and freezing: the kids put in Queensland isolation cells – Full Story podcast

  • In the box
    At 14, Sam has the mental capacity of a five-year-old. So what’s she doing in a Queensland police cell?

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