Policy submissions Archives - Jesuit Social Services

Submission to the National Children’s Commissioner Youth Justice and Child Wellbeing Reform across Australia
- 21 August 2023
Jesuit Social Services was pleased to contribute a submission to the National Children’s Commissioner Youth Justice and Child Wellbeing Reform across Australia.
Submission to the Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework
- 7 August 2023
Jesuit Social Services made submission to the Federal Government’s National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality in early 2023, advocating for a strategy that recognises and addresses harmful gender norms for people of all genders.
Justice Reinvestment Design Submission
- 29 May 2023
Read our submission to the Justice Reinvestment Design Project.
Australia’s illicit drug problem: Challenges and opportunities for law enforcement
- 31 January 2023
Read our submission to the illicit drug inquiry law enforcement inquiry.
Reforming sentence deferrals in Victoria submission
- 10 January 2023
Read our submission to the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council’s consultation on sentence deferrals.
Submission to the Adjourned Undertakings Consultation
- 17 October 2022
Read our submission to the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council’s consultation into adjourned undertakings.
Submission to the Northern Territory's Consultation on Reform to the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility
- 26 September 2022
Read our submission to the Northern Territory's consultation to reform the minimum age of criminal responsibility.
Submission to Victoria's inquiry into children affected by parental incarceration
- 18 May 2022
We know that when a person goes to prison their entire community and family, including children, are impacted. Limiting people’s involvement with the justice system by ensuring prison is reserved only as an option of last resort, and keeping families connected is the best way to prevent this harm...
Federal Election 2022 platform – A blueprint for a just recovery
- 21 April 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many pre-existing social and economic issues in Australia to the fore, from housing stress, to poverty, family violence, and insecure employment. As an organisation working with some of the most disadvantaged members of the community, we have witnessed firsthand the disproportionate impact of this crisis on already marginalised people and communities.
Prisons, climate and a just transition
- 19 January 2022
Australia, like many other countries, is seeing the damaging impact of climate change on communities and ecosystems. In the face of these worsening climate change impacts, marginalised people and communities are most at risk, including people in prison. In December 2019, when bushfires burned close...

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