A petition calling for all refugees and people seeking asylum in detention to be released and resettled in a safe, permanent home by World Refugee Day has received cross-party…
Better and longer care is a more effective way of dealing with youth crime than GPS trackers, denying bail and more punishment, writes Paul McDonald, head of the national…
The new bill grants extraordinary powers but lacks safeguards, especially for children and protection of their rights, writes Simon Henderson, head of policy at Save …
But Indigenous children are still 16 times more likely than non-Indigenous children to be under supervisionThe rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children…
The not-for-profit sector has welcomed the federal government’s move to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) describing the move as…
A new not-for-profit report by aid agency Amnesty International claims the Australian government is responsible for the deliberate and systematic torture of refugees…
Opinion: More revelations of horrific child abuse at the Nauru detention centre following on from the shocking footage of abuse in the Northern Territory youth detention…
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) says leaked incident reports from Australia’s detention camp for asylum seekers on Nauru has again laid bare the devastating…
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has revealed that a royal commission into youth detention abuse, following the damning ABC Four Corners report, will be limited to the…
More than 700 asylum seekers held in detention at Manus Island have taken legal action against the federal government in a bid to bring them to Australia.Barrister Jay Williams,…
Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal.Pro Bono Australia News has obtained a copy…
In a rare backdown on border control from the Abbott Government, a baby that has spent its entire life in detention has been released.
Lawyers for baby Ferouz, who has been…