Media Releases
28/08/2018
NATSILS media release: No more unjust deaths: NATSILS calls for life-saving Custody Notification Services nation-wide
The national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) today called for a national roll out of mandatory custody notification services in response to alarming findings from The Guardian Australia’s ‘Deaths Inside’ project. The national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) today called for a national roll out of mandatory custody ... Read More
23/08/2018
NATSILS media release: NATSILS backs Law Council’s call for urgent injection of funding into legal services
The National peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) is throwing support behind the latest finding from the Law Council’s Justice Project for an urgent injection of at least $390 million per annum of funds into legal services.
03/07/2018
Former youth prisoner at the UN calls out Turnbull Government for failing Indigenous children
Indigenous advocate, Keenan Mundine, a former youth prisoner and principal consultant of Inside Out Aboriginal Justice Consultancy, has travelled to Geneva to address the UN Human Rights Council about the Turnbull Government’s failure to stop ten year old children being sent to prison.
31/05/2018
National roundtable says Australia lags behind world in locking up 10 year olds
Australia is lagging far behind the rest of the world in locking up little children as young as 10 years old, said health, legal, Indigenous and children’s experts at a roundtable with Shadow Assistant for Indigenous Affairs Senator Pat Dodson and Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus in Canberra today.
09/05/2018
NATSILS media release: Federal Budget measures will create more legal need for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people but no solutions
While the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been squarely on the Commonwealth’s agenda in 2018, the Federal Budget has not delivered any funding for solutions.
12/02/2018
NATSILS Media Release: Federal Government response to Royal Commission (NT)
Last week, the Federal Government released a response to the 226 recommendations contained within the Final Report of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory (‘the Royal Commission’).
12/12/2017
Another mark against Australia’s name at the United Nations
The tide of condemnation against Australia’s human rights record is rising, with the United Nations expert panel on racial discrimination, criticising Australia’s failure to combat racism in a report released overnight.
28/11/2017
UN grills Australia over low age of criminal responsibility
The UN expert committee on racial discrimination has demanded to know why Australia is out of step with the rest of the world in criminalising primary school aged children. All Australian states and territories currently have laws that allow children as young as ten years to be charged, brought before the courts, sentenced and imprisoned.
27/11/2017
Australian Government to face scrutiny at the United Nations for an inexcusable rate of locking up Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Today the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) will join Australia’s NGO delegation at the United Nations for the review of Australia by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) to ensure that Australian Governments are held accountable for locking up Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at a rate of 13 times ... Read More
24/11/2017
Joint Media Release- Racism in Australia to be scrutinised on the world stage
The Australian Government is bracing for another round of intense scrutiny at the United Nations – this time focusing on its efforts to combat racial discrimination.
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