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To address youth offending, we must look to the evidence of what works
Last Thursday Jesuit Social Services joined Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton, community leaders and experts at a youth summit to discuss one the most important issues facing our state: the involvement of young people in serious and violent crime....
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Calling for Just Justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cognitive impairments
In the Northern Territory, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cognitive impairments are being indefinitely detained in prison despite not being charged....
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New mental health funding model brings uncertainty and instability
Yesterday (June 9), Professor Patrick McGorry from Orygen, the world-leading youth mental health program, ensured that mental health is given the focus it deserves during the federal election campaign with a powerful address to the National Press Club....
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Helping Aboriginal children stay out of the justice system
For many 13-year-olds, life revolves around school, hanging out with friends, spending time with family and extracurricular activities like sport or learning a musical instrument....
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Community legal centre cuts will hurt the most vulnerable
This National Law Week, Jesuit Social Services has joined a coalition of organisations from the legal and social services sectors to support the Law Institute of Australia’s Legal Aid Matters campaign....
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2016-17 Victorian State Budget responds to needs of a growing population
The 2016-17 Victorian State Budget has been welcomed by the community and social services sector....
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PNG Supreme Court finding on Manus Island shaming for Australians to read
In recent days the plight of the people whom Australia has despatched to Manus Island has twice been highlighted. The Four Corners program on the death of Mr Hamid Khazaei displayed in horrifying detail the negligence, indifference, lack of urgency and priority given to following bureaucratic...
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Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody: up to us to improve outcomes for future generations
Today marks 25 years since the landmark Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody handed down its final report. The report made 339 recommendations on how the Federal Government could work to reduce the over-representation of Aboriginal people in our criminal justice system....
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Not just offshore processing that is inhumane
In the past six months we have had a change in Prime Minister, but unfortunately the country’s punitive and inhumane policies surrounding people seeking asylum remain....