Joint Statement from national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak agencies on proposed legislative reforms to the NSW statutory child protection system

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.

NATSILS media release: Federal Budget measures will create more legal need for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people but no solutions

While the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been squarely on the Commonwealth’s agenda in 2018, the Federal Budget has not delivered any funding for solutions.

NATSILS Media Release: Federal Government response to Royal Commission (NT)

Last week, the Federal Government released a response to the 226 recommendations contained within the Final Report of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory (‘the Royal Commission’).