On 3 May 2018, Mr Yeeda, a 19-year-old Aboriginal man, died at the West Kimberly Regional Prison whilst serving a 14-month custodial term of imprisonment.
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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 increasing removal of First Nations children and the failure to heed the calls of families
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Everyone deserves effective and appropriate medical care. Everyone deserves culturally safe and dignified healthcare, free of discrimination. The National Justice Project walks with our courageous clients in seeking justice for the harms they have experienced from racial bias in hospitals, unacceptable treatment in prisons and neglect in detention. Our clients know through lived experience that
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The May issue of our Justice Brief monthly newsletter was released during National Reconciliation Week as we celebrated the 2025 theme of ‘Bridging Now to Next’. We shared news of the overwhelming support for our Alternative First Responders campaign and new website along with national media coverage on ABC-TV 7.30. We celebrated an award for
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The April issue of our Justice Brief monthly newsletter shared the launch of our national campaign calling for alternative first responders instead of police to attend to people in a health or social crisis. Alternative First Responders is asking for pledges to draw attention to the need for diversity and community involvement in the first
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Content warning for First Nations readers – the following has the name of a deceased Martu woman. A coronial inquest into the death in custody of 41-year-old Martu woman Dannielle Lowe was presented with evidence of the impact of unconscious bias against Aboriginal people in clinical decision making and lack of access to Aboriginal health
Coroner told there were missed opportunities to diagnose ‘red-flag symptoms’ Read More »
National Justice Project CEO Adjunct Professor George Newhouse told a Senate Inquiry of disturbing insights into the treatment of young people in detention and prison having spent decades fighting for improved conditions. Speaking at the inquiry hearing into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system, Professor Newhouse said the children who come in contact with the
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International human rights barrister Jennifer Robinson has joined the National Justice Project to advise the family of Ballardong Njaki-Njaki woman Donna Nelson ahead of her trial set down to begin next month on 18 November 2024. The West Australian grandmother Donna Nelson is currently being held in Chiba prison, Japan, awaiting trial for a crime
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The National Justice Project has welcomed the establishment of a Senate Inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system following the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee announcement last week. Principal Solicitor of the National Justice Project Emma Hearne also welcomed an invitation from the inquiry for our human rights legal firm to make a submission
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Gamilaroi woman and solicitor at the National Justice Project, Karina Hawtrey, writes for Indigenous X. It sometimes feels that for every small step forward we take with policy and law reform in this country it’s two steps back. When just last August, the Northern Territory became the first Australian jurisdiction to legally raise the age of criminal responsibility
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