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State and Federal Attorneys-General have agreed to continue to work towards ratification of an anti-torture treaty that will enable independent...
The submission supports Australia’s ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading...
It is essential that the Federal Government’s roadmap for mental health reform provides a national focus for the issue of...
In January 2012, the Federal Government released the draft Ten-Year Roadmap for National Mental Health Reform. The Roadmap details a...
The NSW Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Joanne Darcy in relation to her claim of false imprisonment....
The Institution for Boys Tamworth, which opened in 1947, was designed to accommodate boys who absconded or misbehaved in other...
Men who were locked up in Tamworth’s Institution for Boys when they were teenagers may have been falsely imprisoned, according...
Mark Holcroft’s fatal heart attack in a prisoner transport van on 27 August 2009 highlights the widespread flaws and reluctance...
Prisoners in NSW will reap the benefits of recommendations which followed the Holcroft inquest.
The Bail Act 1978 (NSW) has been in need of reform for many years, particularly in relation to its negative...