Nobody who reads the story of Baby Charlie will be unmoved by the appalling treatment that he and his mother received, but yet the judicial and political systems of West Australia continue to deny an effective way to investigate the issues of systemic discrimination and bias that this story reveals
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The National Justice Project says the latest Human Rights Watch World Report finding Australia’s “diabolical” treatment of asylum seekers and youth crime has worsened needs to be a wake-up call for governments around the country. National Justice Project CEO Adjunct Professor George Newhouse calls the report a damning indictment of the way refugees and First
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International human rights barrister Jennifer Robinson has joined the National Justice Project to advise the family of Ballardong Njaki-Njaki woman Donna Nelson ahead of her trial set down to begin next month on 18 November 2024. The West Australian grandmother Donna Nelson is currently being held in Chiba prison, Japan, awaiting trial for a crime
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In this explainer, we take a look at the impact of the High-Risk Serious Offenders Act on Indigenous people in Western Australia.
Explainer: what is the WA High-Risk Serious Offenders Act? Read More »
Everyone deserves culturally safe and dignified care, free of discrimination. Our end-of-financial-year health justice campaign is shining the spotlight on discrimination in a range of healthcare settings from hospitals to prisons to offshore detention. Another deeply discriminatory system is the increasing removal of First Nations children and the failure to heed the calls of families
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The May issue of our Justice Brief monthly newsletter was released during National Reconciliation Week as we celebrated the 2025 theme of ‘Bridging Now to Next’. We shared news of the overwhelming support for our Alternative First Responders campaign and new website along with national media coverage on ABC-TV 7.30. We celebrated an award for
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Content warning for First Nations readers – the following has the name of a deceased Martu woman. The National Justice Project has welcomed a Coroner’s recommendations for the provision of culturally safe care to Aboriginal prisoners in Western Australia following an inquest into the death in custody of 41-year-old Martu woman Dannielle Lowe. Ms Lowe
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The National Justice Project has received overwhelming support for our Alternative First Responders campaign and the new website with resources, tools and actions that everyone can take to make meaningful change. Police are currently the be-all first response to calls for help. When people need help they are being met with suspicion and force, when
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The April issue of our Justice Brief monthly newsletter shared the launch of our national campaign calling for alternative first responders instead of police to attend to people in a health or social crisis. Alternative First Responders is asking for pledges to draw attention to the need for diversity and community involvement in the first
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Content warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are advised the following contains the name and image of a deceased Noongar man. The National Justice Project has welcomed the urgency of recommendations handed down in the Coronial Inquest into the death of Ricky-Lee Cound, a 22-year-old Noongar man who died in prison custody in Western Australia
Coroner says WA prison ‘no longer fit for purpose’ after death in custody Read More »
