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An Aboriginal family has filed a Federal Court claim against the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) following traumatic events at a polling booth during the 14 October 2023 Voice Referendum. Barkindji Koori man Murray Benton has lodged the complaint along with
Content Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following includes the names of First Nations people who have passed away. The National Justice Project has welcomed long overdue reform being introduced to New South Wales Parliament today
Everyone deserves culturally safe and dignified care, free of discrimination. Our end-of-financial-year health justice campaign is shining the spotlight on discrimination in a range of healthcare settings from hospitals to prisons to offshore detention. Another deeply discriminatory system is the
Content warning for First Nations readers – the following has the name of a deceased Warlpiri man. National Justice Project CEO George Newhouse represented the family of Kumanjayi White at the Sydney rally as part of a week of national
Content warning for First Nations readers – the following has the name of a deceased Warlpiri man. The National Justice Project has written to Northern Territory Police on behalf of Warlpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves, demanding an independent investigator be
Content warning for First Nations readers – the following has the name of a deceased Martu woman. The National Justice Project has welcomed a Coroner’s recommendations for the provision of culturally safe care to Aboriginal prisoners in Western Australia following
The National Justice Project has received overwhelming support for our Alternative First Responders campaign and the new website with resources, tools and actions that everyone can take to make meaningful change. Police are currently the be-all first response to calls
Content Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains the image and name of a Gomeroi person who has passed away. The National Justice Project will continue to support the family of Gomeroi teenager Mark Anthony
Content warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are advised the following contains the name and image of a deceased Noongar man. The National Justice Project has welcomed the urgency of recommendations handed down in the Coronial Inquest into the death
The National Justice Project says a damning Human Rights Watch report on Western Australia’s child protection system tells a shocking story of Aboriginal children being removed from their families by a system that focuses more on policing families than providing