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Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities: Fourth report

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Authors: Australian Parliament, Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities
Publishers: Parliament of Australia

The committee was established to report on the effectiveness of Australian Government policies following the Northern Territory Emergency Response, specifically on the state of health, welfare, education and law and […]

Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities: Second report

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Authors: Australian Parliament, Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities
Publishers: Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia

The Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities was established in March 2008 and is required to report to the Senate twice yearly until the end of the […]

Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities: Third report

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Authors: Australian Parliament, Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities
Publishers: Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia

This report summarises the work of the Committee on regional and remote Indigenous communities. It focuses upon Western Australia and New South Wales and examines the justice system, a variety […]

Sentencing in the Koori Court Division of the Magistrates? Court : A Statistical Report

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Authors: Byles, Dennis, Karp, Tal
Publishers: Sentencing Advisory Council

This report presents a descriptive profile of the Koori Court, including contextual information on the background and development of the court and its philosophy, aims and jurisdiction. While Koori Court […]

Sentencing Indigenous offenders in Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Resources September,2016

Authors: Marchetti, Elena, Anthony, Thalia
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In common law countries that have been colonized, the colonized peoples are overrepresented in criminal justice statistics and in rates of incarceration. Sentencing laws and court processes have, for some […]

Sentencing Options: Can they Incorporate Cultural Healing?

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Authors: Irwin, Marshall
Publishers: National Indigenous Justice CEO Forum (2007: Brisbane)

These are the PowerPoint slides used as the basis of a conference paper presented at the ‘Cultural healing in criminal justice service delivery: an identification of best practice and innovation […]

Sentencing Spotling on Choking, Suffocation or Strangulation in a Domestic Setting

Resources March,2019

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The Sentencing Spotlight examines sentencing outcomes for choking, suffocation or strangulation in a domestic setting offences under s 315A of the Criminal Code (QLD) finalised in Queensland courts between 2016-17 […]

Sexual assault against Indigenous children : New South Wales 2003-2007

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Authors: NSW Attorney General's Department: Crime Prevention Division
Publishers: NSW Department of the Attorney General

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. […]

Sexual violence and Indigenous victims : women, children and the criminal justice system

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Authors: Davis, Megan, Cripps, Kyllie, Taylor, Louise
Publishers: Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales

This is the first report of a research project on experiences of Indigenous victims of sexual violence in the criminal justice system. In this phase, the project examines the way […]

Shared care of illicit drug problems by general practitioners and primary health care providers: A literature review

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Authors: Penrose-Wall, Jonine, Copeland, Jan, Harris, Mark
Publishers: School of Community Medicine, University of New South Wales

This literature review investigates models of shared care of illicit drug use in Australia and international primary health care systems, including models such as methadone maintenance, detoxification and needle exchange […]