The National Peak Body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) joining with other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak bodies across Australia, welcomes today’s announcement that COAG has agreed to a formal partnership approach to the Closing the Gap Refresh.
NATSILS media release: “I need people to help me”: Australia’s international shame of over-incarcerating Aboriginal children
Australia will come under the United Nation’s microscope for its compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in February next year. According to a new report, Australia is on the path to international embarrassment for its treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
Joint media release: Action still needed on Deaths in Custody Royal Commission recommendations
Change the Record has questioned the report released by the Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion yesterday, which claims that the majority of recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) have been implemented.
Joint media release: Continued Federal Government inaction on over-imprisonment recommendations is devastating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
A chorus of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, communities and organisations have called on the Federal Government to provide a formal response to the recommendations contained in the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Pathways to Justice report.
NATSILS media release: No more unjust deaths: NATSILS calls for life-saving Custody Notification Services nation-wide
The national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) today called for a national roll out of mandatory custody notification services in response to alarming findings from The Guardian Australia’s ‘Deaths Inside’ project. The national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) today called for a national roll out of mandatory custody … Read More
NATSILS media release: NATSILS backs Law Council’s call for urgent injection of funding into legal services
The National peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) is throwing support behind the latest finding from the Law Council’s Justice Project for an urgent injection of at least $390 million per annum of funds into legal services.
Former youth prisoner at the UN calls out Turnbull Government for failing Indigenous children
Indigenous advocate, Keenan Mundine, a former youth prisoner and principal consultant of Inside Out Aboriginal Justice Consultancy, has travelled to Geneva to address the UN Human Rights Council about the Turnbull Government’s failure to stop ten year old children being sent to prison.
National roundtable says Australia lags behind world in locking up 10 year olds
Australia is lagging far behind the rest of the world in locking up little children as young as 10 years old, said health, legal, Indigenous and children’s experts at a roundtable with Shadow Assistant for Indigenous Affairs Senator Pat Dodson and Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus in Canberra today.