We have joined nearly 100 other organisations to call for immediate national action on youth justice.
Today we joined nearly 100 organisations (organised by Change the Record) calling on the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers to take national action on youth justice in light of the release of the Report of the Royal Commission and Board of Inquiry into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory last Friday. The levels of abuse towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the justice system are unacceptable.
You can see our call for national action for youth justice here.
Join us as we are led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christian Leaders to listen deeply and speak out together in support for a YES vote in the referendum for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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Becca De Souza reflects on the recent ‘Voice and the Church’ conference held by Scarred Tree Ministries on the lands of Gadigal Clan of the Eora Nation (St John’s Anglican Church, Glebe, Sydney).
Common Grace's Opening Statement at the Community Support and Services Committee of the Queensland Parliament public hearing for the Criminal Law (Raising the Age of Responsibility) Amendment Bill 2021 held on 14 February 2022.
After Closing the Gap announcements last week, Brooke Prentis calls for real action, commitment and change to come.
Today is National Close the Gap Day. The lack of Closing the Gap is an ongoing injustice. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to die too young and too often from this injustice, and through these gaps we realise the inequality in these lands now called Australia.