Daniel Vansetten spent around 12 years in prison and has since gone on to study a Bachelor of Law at university. He uses his lived experience and study to advocate for prison reform through volunteering with various organisations as well as writing for About Time and producing podcasts with former inmates.
Obtaining information from federal agencies is about to become subject to stricter rules under the Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025 (Cth).
Nothing warms my heart more than the selflessness of good people doing good deeds for our sisters and brothers in prison.
Ideally, parole should enhance rehabilitation and reintegration. In the recent decade, however, rules restricting the granting of parole and a lack of housing options undermine these intended benefits.
Shane Cuthbert was once in prison – now he is in politics, fighting for rights of the criminalised.
While he has been imprisoned on three separate occasions, 8-ball has given Paolo the focus and sense of community to move forward on the right path.
As the months went by, I started to think about what could be done in that time. I started to see time in a different light.
Procedural fairness, often called “natural justice”, is a collection of rights, established under common law in Australia around the 1980s.
The concern for those who are subjected to government decisions is that they often do not get to see the integrity of the information which was considered by the decision-maker and don’t get to check if it’s correct.
One of the most important aspects of self-advocacy in prison is to understand the rights of prisoners and the limitations of power of prison authorities.
Strip searching is a security practice purportedly used by prison authorities to prevent drugs and other contraband from entering prisons.
Australia has two sources of law: legislation and common law. Legislation is made by parliaments and is available in documents called acts. Common law is made by judges in court decisions and covers areas that have not been legislated.
In law, silence is considered a fundamental right that provides fairness in criminal proceedings.
If you believe your right to a fair trial has not been provided, you should seek advice from a lawyer.
This is the second part of a two-part series on Freedom of Information (or Right to Information) laws. This part discusses ‘review processes’ – that is, what can be done if you are unhappy with the FOI decision, particularly if you were refused information and you think this was incorrect.
This is the first of a two-part series on Freedom of Information (FOI), (also called Right to Information). In this part, we explain why FOI is important and how to lodge an application for information.
In this series, we showed that arguments are attempts to persuade people to act or believe something. The strongest arguments are sound arguments.
People use rhetorical ploys to try to convince you of doing or believing something that benefits them.
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Critical thinking is a kind of thinking in which you question what others tell you, what you read, hear or see. You can use critical thinking to analyse what someone is trying to get you to do, and whether you should do it or not based on what they’re telling you.
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