The campaign to raise the age across Australia is gaining momentum, but what does this mean for human rights and Indigenous rights?
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Submission: QLD Criminal Law (Raising the Age of Responsibility) Amendment Bill 2021
Submission to Queensland’s inquiry into the Criminal Law (Raising the Age of Responsibility) Amendment Bill 2021.
Submission: Australia’s engagement in Afghanistan
Amnesty International Australia has made a submission to the inquiry into Australia’s engagement in Afghanistan. The Submission’s focus was on human rights abuses related to Australia’s participation in the war in Afghanistan, and human rights abuses following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
Submission: Inquiry into Victoria’s Justice System
Amnesty International Australia has made a submission to Victoria’s inquiry into the justice system. The Submission’s focus was on raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Victoria.
‘The reality in Australia today – we think it’s OK to lock up kids as young as 10 in jail’
Think back to when you were 10. You probably wouldn’t be thinking about when you were going to get out of prison. I wasn’t.
Submission: Raising the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility (ACT)
Amnesty International Australia and Marque Lawyers have made a joint submission to the Discussion Paper released by the ACT Government on how a higher minimum age of criminal responsibility could be implemented in the ACT.
Dozens of submissions made public after Attorney-Generals refuse to act on raising the age of criminal responsibility in Australia
48 organisations publicly released their submissions on raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility.
Submission: Inquiry into the Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 (QLD)
Amnesty International Australia has made a submission to the inquiry into the Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 (QLD). The bill sets out to: make it harder for recidivists to get bail, introduce a 12-month trial of GPS monitoring as a bail condition for 16 and 17-year-olds charged with particular offences, make it …
Proposed Alice Springs youth curfew will not go ahead: Minister Manison
In response to a motion passed by the Alice Springs Town Council, Amnesty International Australia wrote to the Northern Territory Police Minister, Nicole Manison, asking her to intervene and ensure that a curfew did not go ahead. Amnesty International Australia argued that a curfew on children and young people will only entrench cycles of disadvantage, …
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Indigenous kids in prison: Australia’s national disgrace
We have failed Indigenous kids. It is a matter of national urgency to raise the age and commit to justice reinvestment.