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Better screening when young people enter the youth justice system would help identify those who are neurodivergent.
A lawsuit against police and school officials for how they responded to the kindergartner has been settled, but deeper systemic issues remain.
Three-year-old Tharunicaa Murugappan’s hospitalisation has once again raised the plight of her family, who have been detained since 2018.
Given their ability to accept correction, children have a better claim to rehabilitation, reorientation and reintegration.
Speechless is an opera written in response to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s 2014 report into children in immigration detention.
A boy has been flown to Australia from Nauru for urgent medical treatment for suspected resignation syndrome.
Of course we should have sympathy for the soccer team trapped in the cave. We should extend similar compassion to those caught up in long-term crises that are harder to tackle.
The more notorious concentration camps of the 20th century must serve as a stark reminder of the depravity of tearing children away from their parents and putting them in camps.
Reducing stubbornly high levels of violence can be achieved if there is a focus on ensuring that children are not exposed to violence or toxic stress at home.
A spokesman from the office of ALP senator Lisa Singh told The Conversation by email that: In seeking to illustrate how processing has slowed and refugee detainees are being made to languish for longer…
Assistant Health Minister Ken Wyatt and ALP senator Lisa Singh couldn’t agree on Q&A about whether asylum seeking children “languished” in detention under the previous government. Who was right?
Doctors at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital are refusing to discharge refugee children back into detention. Which should be a priority - their duty of care to their patient or the law?
From July, doctors will no longer be able to fulfil their ethical and professional obligations to report mistreatment of detainees.
We should never accept that a Human Rights Commission ought to be non-partisan or depoliticised. Without both, it would be incapable of doing its job.
The federal government has tabled the long-awaited Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) report into children held in immigration detention. The report, which recommends a royal commission be held…
The 1,000-plus children currently detained in immigration detention facilities in Australia and Nauru are at risk of serious mental health and developmental problems. The Human Rights Commission this week…
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