There are calls for the police minister to resign as a youth has taken his own life inside the Perth facility;the second ever to do so,with both tragedies occurring within the past year.
A coroner found that Nelson,37,would still be alive if prison staff had responded to her cries for help. But WorkSafe closed the case without any charges.
John Howard defended the measures after the Northern Territory’s police commissioner delivered an apology to Indigenous people for the force’s involvement.
Premier Jacinta Allan has backed down on a plan to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 as the government bows to pressure from the community over youth crime.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will return to the Garma festival with a speech long on hope and short on policy proposals.
More Aboriginal children are being removed from their mothers’ care in Victoria now than during the stolen generations,creating “trauma,distrust and fear”,leaders say.
Many Australians are concerned with alleged violent criminals being let out on bail and when they are found guilty,receiving relatively light or non-custodial sentences.
NSW Police are much more likely to simply caution rather than prosecute non-Aboriginal youth who cross the line.
Prison numbers are going in the wrong direction for Aboriginal people. But NSW Police say they should not be held accountable for helping to bring them down.
Indigenous teenager Cleveland Dodd fatally self-harmed in custody in Perth. Now the state’s former prisons inspector has told an inquiry something must change.
Another Australian site may be in the mix for World Heritage status after a campaign was launched for parts of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula.