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Backtrack Boys Education Resources
BackTrack is a community based not-for-profit organisation helping young people who are having a hard time, get back on track. The program works with young people that find themselves hanging around in parks, stealing for food, sleeping on the streets, and running into trouble with the police. These young people are on a path to …
Tasmanian Government must remove children from MC1D pending independent
Amnesty International Australia is calling for all children remaining in the Many Colours 1 Direction (MC1D) program be brought back to Tasmania immediately. The ABC revealed this week there are serious questions about the qualifications of the operator of the program and his conduct as well as the safety of the children sent there. “This …
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Raise the Age: Experts call on Queensland Government to stop locking up 10-year-olds
A broad cross-section of medical, children’s welfare, criminology, legal, Indigenous and human rights experts from around Australia have united with one voice, calling on Queensland’s Minister for Child Safety, Youth and Women Di Farmer to raise the minimum age that Queensland locks up children, from 10 to 14. Members of all Queensland political parties were …
Australia: Aboriginal boys’ deaths could have been prevented
Amnesty International has today expressed sincere condolences to the families of five teenage boys who were chased by police in Perth overnight, tragically ending in the passing of two Aboriginal boys who drowned in the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River). Police are still searching for a third boy. Alison Gibbins, Amnesty International Australia Deputy National Director, …
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