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Amnesty International Australia called on the Federal Government to urgently protect the human rights of Indigenous peoples as part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the key areas where Amnesty has concerns is the increased risk to the health and safety of children who are on remand and are detained in adult …
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Amnesty International Australia has used the opportunity to repeat its strong opinion that the age of criminal responsibility should be raise in Australia. Across Australia, the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 10. This means that children as young as 10 are arrested by police, locked up in police cells, hauled before courts and sent …
Continue reading “Submission: Review of Age of Criminal Responsibility”
We encourage all Australians to use January 26 as a day to reflect on the effects of colonisation on Indigenous peoples. Effects are still being experienced to this very day in terms of institutional racism, poverty, health and gross over-representation in Australia’s prisons, removal of children and deaths in custody. We encourage our supporters to …
In response to reports that Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said the Federal Government will release in the “very near future” a “fully funded” response to the final report of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, Amnesty International Australia’s Indigenous Rights Advisor Rodney Dillon said, “We’re …
In March, Indigenous school students from across the country came together to inspire the next generation of Indigenous mathematicians, scientists and engineers – through a video game. We asked them to share their inspirations for the future. Game On The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), the educational program that supports Indigenous students through high school …
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This NAIDOC Week, our Indigenous rights team tell us what motivated them to work for Indigenous rights. Rodney Dillon, Indigenous Rights Advisor Rodney Dillon here. I’m an Aboriginal man from Tasmania. I have worked at Amnesty for the past eight years. My great-great grandmother Fanny Cochrane Smith was the daughter of Tanganooturra, from Cape Portland …
