The NSW Government has failed to remove the outdated and dangerous practice of priests and ministers using the seal of the confessional to avoid reporting child sexual abuse to the police. This was one of the most important symbolic recommendations from the Royal...
The Liberal National government has made yet another ‘tough on terror’ announcement, aimed at appeasing right wing shock jocks rather than making our communities safer. Attacking the rights of young people in jail, without any court oversight, is an attack on the core...
The Liberal National government has made yet another ‘tough on terror’ announcement, aimed at appeasing right wing shock jocks rather than making our communities safer. Attacking the rights of young people in jail, without any court oversight, is an attack on...
The Invasion Day Rally, organised by FIRE (Fighting In Resistance Equally) grassroots Indigenous activists, will meet at The Block in Redfern at 10am tomorrow morning and march to Yabun Festival in Victoria Park. Invasion Day 2018 marks 230 years of dispossession and...
Statistics from the Productivity Commission show that as June 30 2017 there were a record number, 17,664, Indigenous children in “out of home care”. This represents almost 37% of the 47,915 children in out of home care across the country. Indigenous...
On the 30th anniversary of Mark Haines’ death, Mark’s final remains will be returned to Gomeroi country with a cremation being held by his family. There is also expected to be a further announcement regarding the NSW Police’s criminal investigation into Mark’s case,...
The Assistant Immigration Minister Alex Hawke has issued an empty threat to Brisbane City Councillor Jonathan Sri for speaking the truth about Aboriginal sovereignty. The Greens Councillor said at a citizenship ceremony in October that Australia was stolen from...
The NSW Police must accept the findings of the Coroner and the demands of Scott Johnson’s family to commence a fresh investigation of his murder in 1988. The third inquest into Scott Johnson’s death has today found that he was the victim of a gay hate crime. Greens MP...
In breach of international human rights standards and a 2007 decision of the High Court, the NSW government is seeking to remake the state electoral laws that deny almost all prisoners the vote. The law prohibits any prisoner from voting who is serving a prison...
Cocaine Vs Ice The NSW Police will send 100 officers into rural areas to fight the “ice epidemic”. This is despite the fact that cocaine use in NSW is at a 15 year high and between 2013 and 2016 use of meth/amphetamines in NSW halved. There is a...
Today’s custody figures are a wakeup call for politicians to fix our broken justice system and invest in justice reinvestment solutions that work. NSW is on track to have a record 13,500 prisoners in 12 months and the $3.8 billion the Liberal National government has...
Victims of historic child sexual abuse are one step closer to justice today with the announcement of a federal redress scheme. NSW must now lead the way in opting in to the scheme and implementing each of the Royal Commission’s redress recommendations when its final...
