Children
Turnbull Government blames jobless for no jobs

Instead of creating jobs and programmes to assist Australia's young jobless, the Turnbull Gover ...  
Saving the planet: A passionate plea from Ruby the Climate Kid

Demonstrating wisdom lacking in our political leaders, six-year-old Ruby the Climate Kid is ...  
Australia’s Indigenous children are incarcerated at the world’s highest rate

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are sentenced and incarcerated at the world's ...  
Mounting abuses in youth detention need Indigenous-led solutions

With ever more reports surfacing about child abuse and torture in Australia's detention centres ...  
First Don Dale now #Nauruleak on rampant child abuse earns global censure

The Turnbull Government has earned world-wide condemnation again for its treatment of children in ...  
Human rights abuses and our accountability

Daemon Singer of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties discusses our complicity in human ...  
Suicide of 15 year old Aboriginal boy in Don Dale a result of NT punitive culture

The public outcries come and go but the broken and ruined lives of Aboriginal children in dete ...  
Don Dale abuse: The NT Royal Commission and maintaining outrage

We cannot allow the promise of a Royal Commission into the juvenile detention system to appease ...  
Martin's resignation and the NT Royal Commission

Martin's resignation signals a chance for the NT youth detention Royal Commission to maintain ...  
IA, Brian Martin QC and Kevin Rudd: Appointments and disappointments

Malcolm Turnbull's appointment of Brian Ross Martin QC to his NT Royal Commission and decision to ...  
Turnbull sends message to Aboriginal Australia by appointing Brian Martin QC

PM Turnbull has undermined his newly established inquiry into NT youth detention before it has ...  
Nigel Scullion not interested in child abuse: Does that ring a Pell?

When Nigel Scullion heard about child abuse happening in Northern Territory gaols, he says his ...  
NT detention: Just another atrocity

The Don Dale abuse, while horrific, is just another atrocity to add to a long list of systemic ...  
Don Dale child abuse: Be part of the solution

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders do not want more words written in reports that will be ...  
Think For Yourself: Pokemon Go

Is Pokemon GO about to cause a rash of accidental deaths or is it as harmless as solitaire? IA ...  
Why we need the Safe Schools Program: A victim's story

Turnbull's dwindling authority was trashed further yesterday after he caved in to the homoph ...  
EXCLUSIVE: Former HK Governor Lord Chris Patten is George Pell's spin doctor

Former Hong Kong governor and chair of the BBC as news of Jimmy Savile's crimes on children were ...  
Baby Asha: How you can support her

Neuropsychiatrist, Dr Steve Stankevicius, who recently worked at the Lady Cilento Children's ...  
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