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Federal government to spend another $1.6b on increased cybersecurity initiatives

Federal government to spend another $1.6b on increased cybersecurity initiatives

Communications & Culture Politics & Economy The Law

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton have announced another $1.6 billion dollar package to increase spending...

Aboriginal peak bodies want more from child protection reforms

Aboriginal peak bodies want more from child protection reforms

Indigenous Social Justice

Last week, the NSW government announced the creation of a ministerial advisory group and a Children’s Guardian role specifically focused...

Aboriginal voices needed in out of home care system

Aboriginal voices needed in out of home care system

Indigenous Social Justice

Last week, the NT Children’s Commissioner reported that over 16 years, two foster carers subjected 12 Aboriginal children in their...

Reactive Over Proactive: Aboriginal Child Protection Failure

Reactive Over Proactive: Aboriginal Child Protection Failure

Social Justice

The face of Australia’s Prime Minister has splashed the front covers of Northern Territory newspapers all week, in a unified...

South Australia to scrap confession protection

South Australia to scrap confession protection

Social Justice

South Australia will become the first jurisdiction to abolish confessional exemption for priests not reporting sexual abuse. New laws to...

Life sentences for repeat child sex abusers

Life sentences for repeat child sex abusers

Social Justice The Law

Last year the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse handed down its report and made several recommendations...

Putting a price on child abuse

Putting a price on child abuse

Social Justice

After years of hearing at the royal commission for child sexual abuse, finally a bill is introduced in the Australian...

Should We Raise The Criminal Age Of Responsibility From 10 to 14

Should We Raise The Criminal Age Of Responsibility From 10 to 14

The Law

The Royal Commission into The Protection and Detention of Children, recommended a number of issues to be amended within the Youth...