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Age of criminality broken promise raises treaty fears

Indigenous leaders are raging at the Victorian government for breaking its promise to raise the age of criminality to 14 ahead of treaty talks.

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Aboriginal victims of family violence wrongly arrested

A "huge influx" of Aboriginal women accused of violence have approached the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, who say police are arresting innocent mothers.

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Inquest to probe Aboriginal woman's death in custody

The family of Heather Calgaret, whose death will be examined in an inquest, say she did not get a fair chance at parole before she died in custody.

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A sector in crisis: community legal centres overwhelmed

Community Legal Centres Australia's latest report, A Sector in Crisis, says staff are overworked and underpaid and the community is paying the price.

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‘A betrayal’: Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service condemns children’s bail law reversal

Attorney general comfortable with the status quo, while youth advocates dismiss new plan for electronic monitoring of offenders

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Youpla directors pursued by Asic over collapsed funeral fund that hurt Aboriginal families

Corporate regulator launches court action alleging former directors oversaw structure that left members vulnerable

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Veronica Nelson’s family urges Victorian government to hear ‘cries for help’ and go further with bail reforms

Exclusive: MPs urged to implement Poccum’s law, named in honour of First Nations woman who died in a cell while on remand

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Aboriginal man loses bid to access pension early due to shorter life expectancy

Federal court rules Wakka Wakka man did not demonstrate any lesser enjoyment of right to social security

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Calls for Victorian government to scrap Covid fines as data shows minority groups more likely to be penalised

Some community leaders say report is evidence of officers targeting people based on their ethnicity, which Victoria police rejects

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Raising the age a priority for newly elected First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria leaders

Eleven first-time members chosen as results reignite debate about representation of traditional owners

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Public drunkenness is soon to be decriminalised in Victoria, but stakeholders say they are still waiting for clarity

Key unions and Aboriginal legal advocates fear tragic outcomes after the decriminalisation of public drunkenness, amid confusion over aspects of the new health-led response, due to be rolled out in just five months.

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Lidia Thorpe’s cousins pursuing contentious Victorian treaty negotiations model

Head of traditional owner corporations says Indigenous elders had long fought for current ‘representative structures’

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Victorian police chief issues bail direction in wake of Veronica Nelson inquest findings

Chief Commissioner Shane Patton has told senior officers to make sure they are not unnecessarily denying bail to marginalised people, as the force accepts all of the recommendations from the coronial inquest into Veronica Nelson's 2020 death in custody.

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Indigenous pension case challenges government’s ‘failure to close’ life expectancy gap

The pension eligibility age is being challenged in the Federal Court, with a push to lower it by at least three years for Indigenous Australians.

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Victoria police will still be involved in public drunkenness cases after decriminalisation, documents say

Exclusive: Draft framework suggests officers could provide ‘outreach and transport’, catching union off-guard

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Daniel Andrews promises Victorian bail law reform after inquest into Veronica Nelson’s death

Premier vows responsibility to ‘make the necessary changes’ after state coroner recommended urgent review of bail act

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Vic women's jails purged of private health

Victoria will stop outsourcing health care across the state's women's prisons to a for-profit provider, conceding it hasn't always been up to scratch.

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Drunken arrests decision sparks division

The Victorian government will press ahead with decriminalising public drunkenness without giving police new powers in a decision that has divided organisations.

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Strip-searching of First Nations children by Victoria police ‘state-sanctioned violence’, inquiry hears

Indigenous children routinely subjected to racist slurs and excessive force, including use of stun guns, Yoorrook Justice Commission told

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Political and Indigenous leaders rally to keep young children out of youth justice system

Members of the Indigenous, legal and political communities are uniting behind efforts to raise the state's criminal age of responsibility to 14.

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‘Precisely the wrong direction’: why is Victoria opening a $419m youth prison?

Victoria spends $1.4 million for each young person in detention. That cost is set to jump, and experts say it couldn’t be a worse approach.

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Victoria paying more than $1m a day to keep unsentenced prisoners in jail

Despite steep rise in number of prisoners on remand, Andrews government hasn’t reviewed bail reforms

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Victoria police fails to hit its own 1% Indigenous employment target

Police say identification of staff’s background voluntary, as legal service calls for review

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Victoria’s prison health care system should match community health care

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that names of deceased people are included in this article.

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Inquest into Aboriginal woman’s death in custody to examine healthcare in Victoria’s prisons

Earlier directions hearing was told Veronica Nelson cried for help several times in the hours before her death

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