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Current issues in child protection policy and practice: Informing the NT Department of Health and Community Services: child protection review

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Authors: Tomison, Adam M
Publishers: Australian Institute of Family Studies, National Child Protection Clearinghouse, Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services

The aim of this report is to provide an overview of current issues for Australian child protection systems, and in particular to inform the child protection review being undertaken in […]

Evaluation of the Northern Territory Agreement : Final Report

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Authors: Wilczynski, Ania, Wallace, Alison, Nicholson, Barbara, Rintoul, Duncan
Publishers: Australian Government Attorney-General's Department

This evaluation considers the first three years of operation of the Juvenile Pre-Court Diversion Scheme the Aboriginal Interpreter Service (AIS) in the Northern Territory. The programs are funded jointly by […]

Court’ in the System: The Impact of the Circuiting Bush Court Upon Criminal Justice Administration and Domestic Violence Prosecution in Aboriginal Communities

Resources July,2003

Authors: Siegel, Natalie
Publishers: Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 15(1), pp56-60

Aboriginal Legal Service defence lawyers face uniquely challenging conditions when the Magistrates Court intermittently circuits remote Aboriginal communities and isolated towns in Northern Australia. Based on the findings of research […]

Alcohol and Alice Springs : meeting the needs and wishes of the community

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Authors: Rosewarne, Clive, Boffa, John
Publishers: Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales

For years community groups in Alice Springs, including the People’s Alcohol Action Coalition (PAAC), attempted to gain the agreement of the NT Licensing Commission to trial reduced takeaway trading hours […]

Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law: Report on Aboriginal Customary Law

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Authors: Northern Territory Law Reform Committee, Committee of Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law
Publishers: Northern Territory Government, Northern Territory Law Reform Committee

The Committee was required to inquire into the strength of Aboriginal customary law in the Northern Territory and to make recommendations as to what extent Aboriginal customary law might achieve […]

State of denial : the neglect and abuse of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory

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Authors: Pocock, Julian, Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC)
Publishers: Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

In the Northern Territory the rate of Indigenous child removal is very low when compared to the rates for Indigenous children in other States and Territories, and only marginally higher […]

A Holistic Approach to Juvenile Offending

Resources Sept,2002

Authors: Waite, Graham
Publishers: Crime Prevention Conference, Sydney 12-13 September 2002. Australian Institute of Criminology and Attorney-General's Department

The Commonwealth and Northern Territory Governments signed an agreement on 27 July 2000 to enable the diversion of juveniles from the criminal justice system and to provide for joint funding […]

Bush Court: administering criminal court process and corrective services in remote Aboriginal communities

Resources Sept,2002

Authors: Siegel, Natalie
Publishers: Monash University ,

Over a six-month period beginning July 2000, the author researched eight different Bush Courts in remote communities throughout the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and evaluated the level of legal […]

Justice Kriewaldt, Aboriginal identity and the criminal law

Resources Aug,2002

Authors: Douglas, Heather
Publishers: Criminal Law Journal, 26(4) pp204-222

Justice Martin Kriewaldt, a judge of the Northern Territory Supreme Court from 1951 to 1960, frequently struggled with the question of how to understand and distinguish Aboriginal people in relation […]

Mandatory sentencing and human rights: contemporary comments

Resources Mar,2002

Authors: Cunneen, Chris
Publishers: Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 13(3), pp322-327

This comment sets out the specific areas of conflict between mandatory sentencing and key human rights standards and provides a summary of criticism of mandatory sentencing by key United Nations […]