Youth-justice Articles

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November 13, 2025

Will Victoria’s new youth crime laws be tough on crime or just a coward punch?

Jacinta Allan’s Labor government takes a leaf out of the playbook of conservative oppositions: focus on crime and hope voters see them as knights in...

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September 15, 2025

Youth crime in regional NSW down 12% with even sharper drops in crime hotspots

New data shows far west and Orana region is down 42%, while car theft is down by almost 25% overallGet our breaki...

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September 05, 2025

Don Dale detainee isolated for 84 hours and denied food as coercion technique, investigation finds

Children’s commissioner says young Indigenous person kept in isolation for 12 hours longer than permitted under NT youth justice laws because they...

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July 30, 2025

Advocates criticise ‘dangerous’ NT plan to reintroduce spit hoods in youth detention centres

Reintroduction of spit hoods in youth detention centres defended by territory government, almost 10 years after they were banned

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