In September, Patterson was sentenced on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder for serving a Beef ...

Last week, Australia’s new government in Northern Territory passed legislation lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 12 to 10 years. This allows the territory to incarcerate 10-year-olds, a ...

In a dreary government building in the center of Moree, a cotton town in northern New South Wales, Australia, a 19-year-old Aboriginal girl by the name of Kate is about to be sentenced for a crime — ...

The Australian attorney general announced Tuesday that the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) will be inquiring into justice responses to sexual violence in Australia. The inquiry will examine ...

(Bangkok) – The Australian government increasingly violated the rights of children in the criminal justice system in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025. Authorities in ...

Independent human rights experts on Monday urged lawmakers in the Australian state of Queensland to vote against a bill introducing additional criminal offenses and imposing adult sentences on youth ...

Restorative justice (RJ) is an alternative to the isolating, stigmatizing, and traumatizing nature of our punitive criminal justice system. Indigenous and Native nations have practiced restorative ...