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More than half of Australians support the minimum age of criminal responsibility being raised from 10, amid a growing international campaign for the change backed by legal experts, doctors and justice groups.
In fact, polling commissioned by Amnesty International Australia reveals two-thirds of Australians already believe the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 14.
A total of 56 per cent of Australians would support raising the minimum age to 14, with 33 per cent opposed and 11 per cent unsure, the polling suggests.
The survey came as the Queensland government begins public hearings into contentious youth justice reforms and after 31 United Nations member states called on Australia to raise the age in line with other jurisdictions.
Most Australians already think age of criminal responsibility is 14
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In a devastating and traumatic period of just six days, Australia recorded three more Indigenous deaths in custody.
The death of a woman in her 50s on 5 March followed that of a man in his 30s on 2 March. It came to light through questioning in a state budget estimates hearing.
It prompted an outpouring of grief across the country and sadness about how so many deaths could happen in such a short space of time, three decades on from a damning royal commission.
Questions were asked about how Indigenous people could still be dying inside prison in 2021, mere months after tens of thousands of Australians marched in rallies demanding an end to racial inequality.