Two children have died, but experts say WA has yet to solve its youth detention problem
A year ago today, WA's youth detention system reached what was meant to be its lowest point — a child's death in custody.
Australian territory resumes jailing 10-year-olds
Children as young as 10 can once again be jailed in Australia's Northern Territory (NT), after the government there lowered ...
Australia's Northern Territory To Resume Jailing 10-Year-Olds To Reduce Youth Crime Rates
The Australian Northern Territory (NT) will soon allow children as young as 10 to be jailed again, after a reversal of the ...
Australia: What is the Northern Territory's controversial law that jails 10-year-olds?
Australia’s Northern Territory has lowered the age of criminal responsibility back to 10 years old, sparking outrage from experts, human rights groups, and Indigenous leaders. The government defends ...
Researchers partner with local communities to halve skin sores among Aboriginal children in remote Australia
Aboriginal children living in remote communities have the highest rate of skin sores, or impetigo, in the world. Almost one ...
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Australia’s Northern Territory to jail 10-year-old offenders
The new Country Liberal Party (CLP) government said the new age limit was necessary to combat crime among youth.
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New statutory role for Indigenous children backs ‘better outcomes’
The government is creating a new National Commission for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People ...
The NT has lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 10. First Nations advocates say it will hurt kids
Health, justice and human rights experts as well as Indigenous community leaders have criticised the legislation as ...
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Reclaiming the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home
A hundred years after the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home was established, survivors and families of the Stolen Generations whose childhoods were spent there are trying to reclaim the site.
Landmark study halves Aboriginal skin infections in remote communities
Skin infections of Aboriginal children living in remote communities across the Kimberley has been halved, thanks to an ...
UN Rights of the Child committee chair says NT government's lowering of criminal age 'contravened' global treaty obligations
A United Nations committee chair is writing to Anthony Albanese on the Northern Territory's new law to lower the criminal age ...
A Ravishing Show of Aboriginal Art, Some in the U.S. for the First Time
The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an ...