The Australian justice system is failing to support victims in seeking justice and holding perpetrators accountable, according to the final report presented by the Australian Law Reform Commission to ...

On Tuesday, Australia’s National Children’s Commissioner released a report, “Help way earlier!”, that finds that Australia is failing to protect children’s rights in its criminal justice ...

The Australian government increasingly violated the rights of children in the criminal justice system in 2024.

As the dust settles on the long-awaited coronial findings into the death of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker, which detailed his ...

The same rules that apply to other public services where data is used to improve performance should also apply to our court ...

Australia’s top law reform agency wants all police, prosecutors and defence lawyers to go through mandatory training on rape myths, in one of several steps to reform a failing justice system.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment rate was at crisis point in 2009. Since then, it's risen from 20% to ...

Everything must be done to ensure another child doesn’t die in youth detention, a coroner has told an inquest for an Indigenous teenager who fatally self-harmed while in custody.

The inquest into the killing of Kumanjayi Walker found the officer who shot him three times was racist. But the justice system and media class have proven we have a long way to go until Aboriginal ...

The Yoorrook Justice Commission has revealed hard truths about injustices Indigenous people have suffered. Those who shared ...

Australia's top judge, Stephen Gageler, has used his first Australian interview to warn that AI could strike at the heart of ...

Aboriginal legal service NAAJA is calling for an 'emergency intervention' to 'de-escalate' tensions in the Northern Territory's justice system, following two deaths of Aboriginal men in police ...