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More than 70 peak organisations have endorsed calls from Social Reinvestment WA urging the state to raise the age of criminal responsibility from ten to 14 years old.  The report ‘A Pathway to a Brighter Future for Western Australia’s most at risk children’ found almost 75 per cent of the average daily population in juvenile detention are First Nations children. Indigenous children make up just five per cent of young people in WA.  Social Reinvestment WA is urging the government to reform the juvenile justice system and put more funding into rehabilitation and prevention to support y...

The Kimberly Land Council has dropped its CEO after he attempted to uncover information around the spending of millions of dollars in mining royalties.  Yawuru man Brian Wilkinson was just 12 weeks into his term as head of the council, one of the country's oldest, when the board terminated his contract last week.  Mr Wilkinson, a former police officer, had been probing the financial dealings of the land council's associated trust, the Kimberly Sustainable Development Trust, which is the primary holding entity for the vast mining royalties accrued in the region.  Following mounting communit...

Leaked documents show ‘significant risk’ over Indigenous organisation’s millions We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Leaked documents show one of Australia’s oldest and best-resourced Indigenous corporations has been operating without a valid board of directors since 2017 and is unable to properly account for $28 million worth of transactions. The crisis at the Marra Worra Worra Aboriginal Corporation in Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia’s vast Kimberley region is detailed in ...

Advertisement 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 publi...

Share on Twitter 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 mo...