Indigenous prisoners need culturally-appropriate healthcare given by Aboriginal medical services to prevent more needless deaths in custody, advocates warn.
Exposing violence against First Nations women and girls at the UN
We have written to the UN to draw international attention to systemic violence against First Nations women and children in Australia.
Coroner finds death of First Nations man in prison preventable
Mr Yeeda, was a 19 year-old First Nations man who died of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) at the West Kimberley Regional Prison.
The Mullaley family’s long fight for #JusticeforBabyCharlie
The Mullaley family have been searching for truth, justice, and accountability for the death of Baby Charlie for nine years. Here, we trace the key steps on the family’s long journey towards justice.
Too little, too late
The West Australian has published an extensive piece by Tim Clarke on the horrific abduction and murder of Charlie Mullaley.
“We feel lighter now”: After 34 years of heartache, inquest into death of two First Nations girls resumes
The NSW State Coroner has given the green light to resume a Coronial Inquest into the death of two Aboriginal girls thirty-four years ago near Bourke.
Mona and Cindy: 32 years a lonely road to justice for Bourke teens
Senior writer for The Australian Rosemary Neill’s extensive report on the horrific death of two Bourke, NSW teenagers, includes the National Project’s involvement in the case. Thirty two years after a man accused of killing two Aboriginal girls – and molesting the critically injured younger child – walked free from a court in Bourke, NSW, the grieving families’ long-held wish …
Family of Dougie Hampson call on NSW Attorney-General to demand inquest
The family of Kamilaroi/Dunghutti man Dougie Hampson, who died of perforated ulcers after sent home from hospital in 2021, need your help demanding an inquest. Sign the petition here.
Announcing the winners of the 2022 Naomi Williams Wiradjuri Poetry Prize
In NAIDOC Week, we announce the three young writers of the 2022 Naomi Williams Wiradjuri Poetry Prize and celebrate their poems on Respect, Recognition and Reconciliation.
Could Australia’s courts go the way of the US Supreme Court?
NJP’s Principal Solicitor George Newhouse and ANU political scientist and research fellow Dr Patrick Leslie discuss Roe Vs Wade with ABC Life Matter’s Hilary Harper. The overturning of Roe V Wade has raised questions about the ideological bias in the SCOTUS. Good thing that could never happen in Australia’s High Court, right? We look at how ideology influences High Court …