Australian Social Justice Advocacy

09/05/2025

Labor has an opportunity for significant change, but it would require a substantial commitment, spanning two or more terms to fully realise the potential. While some initiatives could be achieved more swiftly, it’s crucial to note that Labor could not pursue all of them simultaneously.

Labor has an opportunity for significant change, but it would require a substantial commitment, spanning two or more terms to fully realise the potential. While some initiatives could be achieved more swiftly, it’s crucial to [...]

22/04/2025

“Labor’s economic outcomes have been vastly better than the Coalition’s.

“Deficits for the four years 2023 to 2026 were forecast under Coalition settings to be $224.4 billion. Under Labor, they totalled just $31.9 billion.

“There is no case whatsoever for newspaper editors to endorse the Coalition.”

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With an election imminent, the differences between the major political parties have seldom been clearer.

03/03/2025

“The pro-Coalition ABC Newsrooms keep telling Australians that their economy ‘is in poor shape.’

“In fact, most economic indicators show it is better-performed than it ever was under the Coalition and is now among the world’s strongest.”

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Following the lead of Sky News and the Murdoch newspapers, the national broadcaster is misreporting Labor’s economy.

24/10/2024

So please act
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/10/international-law-obligates-un-member-states-and-international-organizations

if it does not act

GENEVA (18 October 2024) – All States and international organizations, including the United Nations, have obligations under international law to bring to an end Israel’s unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupie...

24/10/2024

There is going to be serious adverse consequences due to the [unstainable] middle arm project. Please take time to learn by viewing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZHMpX915SI ...Stephen is a Research and Teaching Associate in Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University. He is also undertaking a PhD through the Northern Institute.

Billee is a geo-spatial scientist with a diversity and depth of experience in natural resource management and the use of Geographic Information Systems.

Colton has been working on his PhD on food webs in the Roper River since 2021. His project focuses on the connection between flows and food web structure, quality, and quantity.

In this seminar, the three speakers share their perspectives on the implications of the Middle Arm development, based on their backgrounds in research and science.

Billee's presentation includes part of a video about the Marlinja-Ijibarda-Jikaya Wetland System which was filmed and produced by Nicholas Goldhurst. The full video is available at https://vimeo.com/843760570.

The RIEL Seminar Series presents exciting new research findings and updates on environmental sciences from February to November. Find out more about our upcoming seminars on our seminars page https://www.cdu.edu.au/riel/seminars.
Transcript

Stephen Enciso, Billee McGinley and Colton Perna presented ‘Researcher perspectives on the Middle Arm industrial precinct’ in a joint seminar from RIEL and t...

19/10/2024

Detention rates for young people aged 10 to 17 in youth detention facilities across Australia
Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Youth Justice in Australia 2022–23, supplementary tables S83b and S84b (2024)

19/10/2024

... " Co-founder of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency Natalie Hunter said the passing of the laws marked a "national day of sorrow for our people."
The Nyikina woman said she was shocked the government had not passed the change without establishing rehabilitation and diversion programs, including its two promised "boot camps".
"How can you make a law when you don't put in the support base first?" Ms Hunter said.
"We don't even have the support base now with what's going on at Don Dale Youth Detention Centre."
"I worked in the child protection system for 20 years in the Northern Territory — it's a bloody national crying shame."
Ms Hunter said she believed the changes were racist and would not make the community safer.
"We know that's going to target Aboriginal children," she said.
"Jailing kids makes crime worse — it doesn't make things better

A United Nations committee chair is writing to Anthony Albanese on the Northern Territory's new law to lower the criminal age of responsibility, which they say "contravened" Australia's international treaty obligations.

19/10/2024

No! No! No! Such backward steps- this is serious -kids DO NOT belong in jail ! These children need support communties scremaning out for their solutiojns to be funded. THIS new law breeches Child , human and Indigenous rights . Most , if not all kids locked up at present in the NT are First Nations kids! What does this say about our country . we are a racist prison state.

belong on Country as the Grandmothers of Darwin and Central Australia have been saying for decades . For over 8 years the Independent Member for Mulka , the Hon Yingiya Mark Guyula MLA , has been speaking of their and local First Nations solutions that will work. These need to be well resourced and funded . Yet First Peoples denied their basic rights to self-detertmination in this and so much more. Be OUTRAGED -SPEAK UP _The NT Government have ignored evidence of what works and best practise.

Please write to the chief Minsiter, Hon Lia Finocchiaro
[email protected] (If in her electorate consider wirting and /meeting with her [email protected]
13A Zuccoli Plaza, 1 Zuccoli Parade, Zuccoli NT 0832
Postal address PO Box 4248, Palmerston NT 0831
Phone 08 8999 6674 )

Change the Record add

"Experts in child development, health, and justice, universally agree that punitive measures do not rehabilitate children. Children do not belong in prisons, environments that simply deepen their trauma, taking them away from their family and their community, and in the case of First Nations children, away from their Country and their culture. Instead, Children need therapeutic and nurturing environments where they can heal and grow, where they receive the nurturing and support that they require to reach their full potential.
In light of the Northern Territory Government’s actions, Change the Record is calling on the Australian Government to intervene and to set a national standard for raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14. The Australian Government has both a legal and a moral obligation to protect the rights and welfare of all Australian children, especially those most at risk of being caught in a criminal legal system. Now more than ever, we need strong leadership to ensure that the rights of vulnerable children, especially First Nations children, are safeguarded from politically motivated and regressive policies."...
"In light of the Northern Territory Government’s actions, Change the Record is calling on the Australian Government to intervene and to set a national standard for raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14. The Australian Government has both a legal and a moral obligation to protect the rights and welfare of all Australian children, especially those most at risk of being caught in a criminal legal system".. https://www.changetherecord.org.au/change-the-record/posts/change-the-record-slams-nt-for-lowering-the-age-of-criminal-responsibility?fbclid=IwY2xjawF_3aNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQnSOZywN3Jsib9nDfxZFYT_Q-bMQ5exLN5o2OuPydii_yMGSZD039VutA_aem_PYAEcRERIFtY8Vbp7dKoOA

please write to

'https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/the-nt-has-lowered-the-age-of-criminal-responsibility-to-10-first-nations-advocates-say-it-will-hurt-kids/3akpjbuml

Health, justice and human rights experts as well as Indigenous community leaders have criticised the legislation as discriminatory and against best practice.

07/10/2024

Amnesty International Australia 🕯

We demand that the Australian government do everything in its power to end the ongoing crisis.