Tag: First Nations Justice
NEWS AND
CASE UPDATES
- November 7, 2023
On October 27, LawHack 2023: Rights of the Child came to life with flying colours!💥 Alongside the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, we harnessed the intellectual firepower of more than 45 legal professionals in one room to generate
- September 1, 2023
“I am still heartbroken about the death of my son [in WA Prisons]. I don’t want any mother to have to go through what I have had to bear" - mother of Jomen Blanket.
- August 24, 2023
The family of George Campbell say that more could have been done to provide cultural connection for their son in state care.
- August 2, 2023
A coroner has accepted expert opinion that the life of Stanley Inman Jnr could have been saved if there had been culturally safe care at Acacia Prison.
- May 10, 2023
A spate of suicides in WA's Acacia Prison will be highlighted this week, as the WA Coroner examines the death of Stanley Inman Jnr.
- May 5, 2023
We support the ‘yes’ campaign on a Voice to Parliament. We believe that it will be a powerful tool for advocacy that can strengthen grass-roots campaigning.
- April 4, 2023
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.
- March 22, 2023
Drawing on the experience of our clients, we drew the parliament’s attention to the systemic failures to address violence against Indigenous women and children.
- February 8, 2023
The NSW Coroner has begun the hearing into the death of George Campbell, a Yuin-Dunghutti-Tharawal teenager who was in the care of NSW DCJ when he died.
- January 19, 2023
Instead of locking up kids in youth detention, we must give them medical care, education, and connection to their community.