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Our Vision for New South Wales: 2023 Election Platform
Our vision for New South Wales' next government ahead of the 2023 state election.
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Reforming sentence deferrals in Victoria submission
Read our submission to the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council’s consultation on sentence deferrals.
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Ensuring no one gets left behind: Employment White Paper response
Read our submission to the Federal Government's Employment White Paper.
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Jesuit Social Services together with over 230 organisations and community groups across Australia signed a joint statement calling for action to end the detention of children, once and for all. The statement urged the Australian Parliament to introduce legislation to prevent children from being held in closed immigration detention in the future and to take…
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Jesuit Social Services’ recently released our Victorian State Election platform, A state of opportunity, which builds on 45 years of advocacy and action. The platform outlines our vision for a just society across a range of interconnected social policy areas, from a fairer justice system, to support for people experiencing multiple and complex needs such as mental illness, trauma and bereavement,…
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Jesuit Social Services’ recently released Victorian State Election platform, A state of opportunity, builds on 45 years of advocacy and action, to outline our vision for a just society across a range of interconnected social policy areas, from a fairer justice system, to support for people experiencing multiple and complex needs such as mental illness,…
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Too much too young: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 12
Our paper urges all Australian governments to increase the age of criminal responsibility in Australia from 10 to 12. The minimum age of criminal responsibility across all Australian jurisdictions is 10, despite extensive scientific evidence the brains of children under 12 are not adequately developed for them to be criminally responsible. We make six key…
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Submission to the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence
This submission explore the gaps and opportunities for better responding to perpetrators of family violence. Our diversity of work means we have direct experience of the gaps in responses to family violence. While our services are not family violence specific, the impact of family violence is present across all our programs: our participants have experienced violence,…
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Federal Election 2022: A humane immigration system
Jesuit Social Services’ recently released Federal Election platform, A blueprint for a just recovery, builds on 45 years of advocacy and action, to outline our vision for a just society. In this fifth in a series of pre-Election blogs, we focus on creating a humane immigration system.
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Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week 2022
National Sorry Day, on 26 May, is an opportunity to acknowledge the trauma and loss that continues to affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and a chance to reflect on shared histories and healing – which is a focus of Reconciliation Week, and follows from 27 May to 3 June. In this post, ANDY…