The Aboriginal Child Sexual Assault Taskforce was established to consult widely with Aboriginal communities, community based services and government departments about child sexual assault within Aboriginal communities, which will result […]

The NSW Attorney General’s Department has undertaken a statutory review of the Young Offenders Act 1997(NSW), which is required to be reviewed every three years. This report brings together the […]

Child sexual assault in Indigenous communities has previously been identified as a significant problem. This bulletin analyses recorded crime data in New South Wales over the period 2003 to 2007. […]

This report documents and evaluates the work undertaken by the Broken Hill and Menindee Rural Crisis Intervention Projects in finding community solutions to Aboriginal family violence. The report presents referral […]

The strategy sets out a model of care that will guide the implementation of specific actions by local health districts, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, and other non-government service providers. […]

This report discusses the provisions in the criminal justice system for people with cognitive and mental health impairments. The report tracks the stages where diversion is possible in the criminal […]

This report delves into the increasing over-representation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system in NSW. It forms part of a response of a request by the Attorney General […]

The NSW Women in Prison Task Force Report was released in 1985. It contained 269 recommendations. Central to the report was the view that the number of women in prison […]

This chapter examines how indigenous and non-Indigenous women view their futures after domestic and family violence and seeks to explain the divergence between the two. The author uses their extensive […]

Urgent action is required to address the abuse of women and children in Indigenous communities and all genuine efforts to address Indigenous family violence should be encouraged and supported. The […]

In 2000, two Australian taskforce investigations considering justice responses to violence against women released reports contained opposing recommendations about the suitability of restorative justice for cases of domestic and family […]

First Nations, Métis and Inuit Children and Youth: Time to Act provides a portrait of Aboriginal peoples from the perspective of the communities and social connections on which children and […]

In May 2008 the Government established an 11-member national council which was tasked to provide the Government with advice on the development of an evidence-based national plan of action to […]

In May 2008 the Government established an 11-member national council which was tasked to provide the Government with advice on the development of an evidence-based national plan of action to […]

In May 2008 the Government established an 11-member national council which was tasked was to provide the Government with advice on the development of an evidence-based national plan of action […]

In May 2008 the Government established an 11-member National Council to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children which was tasked was to provide the Government with advice on the […]

Indigenous Australians make up almost one-quarter of Australia’s prison population, and the issues experienced by Indigenous offenders are significant and complex. The strong links between substance misuse and Indigenous incarceration […]

The National Inhalant Abuse Taskforce (NIAT) was established by the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (MCDS) to consider existing initiatives, programs and strategies to address inhalant abuse in Australia and […]

This is a summary report highlighting the findings and recommendations of the review relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian from the National Review of Mental Health Programmes and […]

The Sisters In Spirit initiative is a research, education and policy initiative funded by Status of Women Canada. The initiative is designed to address the disturbing numbers of missing and […]

This report brings together five years of research related to missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada by the Native Women?s Association of Canada (NWAC). The purpose of […]

This is the Hansard transcript of the reply by the Leader of the Opposition, Brendan Nelson, to the historic apology proffered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on behalf of the […]

This report outlines research undertaken to identify prolific offenders and their characteristics. It identified Indigenous offenders as a group significantly more likely to be prolific offenders. As prolific offenders make […]

Circle sentencing commenced in New South Wales in February 2002 in Nowra Local Court. Since then the program has been expanded to Armidale, Bourke, Brewarrina, Dubbo, Kempsey, Lismore, Mount Druitt […]

This bulletin reports the main findings of the ‘Participation of Aboriginal people in the MERIT program’ report, released in 2006. The Magistrates Early Referral into Treatment (MERIT) program was developed […]

Sexual assault of children has long-term devastating consequences for those who have experienced it, as well as their families. The preparation of a whole-of-government plan has been prompted by concerns […]

This is the New South Wales Government’s response to the Noetic Group’s ‘Strategic review of the New South Wales juvenile justice system’ (2010). The Government acknowledges the review’s finding that […]

Community justice centres (CJCs) were established in New South Wales in 1980 to provide a means of settling the sort of disputes that conventional court based procedures are unable to […]

This report finds that a new, simplified Bail Act is required. The report was made pursuant to a referral by the Attorney General. In highlighting the need to simplify the […]

After a trial of several years, criminal infringement notices were introduced to all police operations in NSW in November 2007. The notices provide police with an easy, additional way to […]

The New South Wales’ Ombudsman findings and recommendations following an examination of the concerns raised by the Bourke and Brewarrina Aboriginal Community Working Parties about service delivery to vulnerable children […]

This special report to Parliament is made under Part 6A of the Community Services (Complaints, Reviews and Monitoring) Act 1993, which requires the NSW Ombudsman to audit the implementation of […]

This report outlines the findings and recommendations from the NSW Ombudsman’s audit of the implementation of the NSW Interagency Plan to Tackle Child Sexual Assault in Aboriginal Communities. The Interagency […]

The Aboriginal Strategic Direction 2012-2017 is the overarching policy document developed to guide the NSW Police Force in its management of Aboriginal issues. It supersedes the Aboriginal Strategic Direction 2007-2011. […]

This is an evaluation of the implementation of Rangatahi Courts, which are culturally specific youth courts in New Zealand informed by Koori courts. The evaluation found that cultural relevance and […]

This report identifies the key trends in the New Zealand Ministry of Justice’s Child and Youth Prosecution Statistics 2011. The report focuses on the characteristics and outcomes for children and […]

This report concerns a National Workshop held at Alice Springs in August 2007, which focused on policing responses to alcohol and other substance misuse problems in rural and remote Indigenous […]

Indigenous people are over-represented in the courts in both Australia and Canada. They face special disadvantages in dealing with the courts that have led to the development of special legal […]

Indigenous people repeatedly state that they do not want white people to tell their stories for them, but within Australia’s legal system, where non-Indigenous lawyers are in the majority, it […]

In August 2006, the Northern Territory Government created the Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse to research and report on allegations of sexual abuse […]

This discussion paper sets out a series of possible amendments to the ‘Alcohol Court Act 2005 (NT)’, as well as other Northern Territory initiatives, in order to address the full […]

This document is the Northern Territory’s Indigenous generational plan of action, which is aimed at closing the gap in outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Territorians. It contains a vision and […]

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 […]

The Victorian Aboriginal Justice Agreement (AJA) is a formal partnership between the Victorian Government and the Koori community, which has been operating since June 2000 working to improve justice outcomes […]