Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry is calling on the state government to create an independent watchdog to tackle police complaints, a First Nations-controlled child protection system and to stop detaining children under the age of 16.
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Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry is calling on the state government to create an independent watchdog to tackle police complaints, a First Nations-controlled child protection system and to stop detaining children under the age of 16.
During a year-long inquiry, the Yoorrook Justice Commission found evidence of ongoing systemic racism and gross human rights abuses committed against First Peoples in the state of Victoria.
Yoorrook is also calling for training for all Victorians working in policing, corrections, youth justice, child protection and some health roles after the commission heard evidence of racial bias and over-policing against First Peoples.
The commission has acknowledged progress has been made in some of these areas, including the Victorian government’s recently introduced bail reforms and its plan to eventually raise the criminal age of responsibility to 14.
“In effect, this means an Aboriginal child in our community can be in a pipeline to the justice system before being born,” Wergaia/Wamba Wamba Elder and chair of the commission Eleanor Bourke wrote in the forward to Yoorrook’s report.
In early December last year, during Yoorrook hearings, Premier Daniel Andrews conceded the state’s child protection system was “troubling” and “not designed properly”.
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This is what happens when you don’t detain violent offenders. Both out on bail for the exact same M.O. Soft youth sentencing let this happen.
Interactions with the justice system in Australia are criminogenic, ie. they increase the likelihood of reoffending. Especially when it comes to youth offenders.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-15/buried-report-on-youth-detention-raising-the-age/101635706
Australia’s primary approaches are failing to produce correctional outcomes and doubling down on that will make the problem worse, not better, regardless of how much populist politics might wish it to be otherwise. We do have models that have demonstrated success but they’re all in a therapeutic justice tradition.
What’s your point here? The article you linked relates to a murder in Qld and seems to have nothing to do with the report from truth telling commission.
Yes, an attack in QLD on xmas day by indigenous youth who had done the exact same thing previously and been treated as the truth telling commission recommended: slapped on the wrist and let go.
The truth telling here is that if you let violent offenders walk free they just do it again, it doesn’t matter how old they are.
The article doesn’t refer to violent offenders? Is this in the actual report from the truth telling commission?
