A program helping First Nations children being held in police watch houses in Queensland will stop operating after losing its state government funding.

The Victorian government in late February announced plans to remove the use of ‘good character’ references at sentencing.

Including a smoking ban no longer going ahead in WA, changes to the Home Detention Scheme in SA, a hiring spree at Lockyer Prison and more.

In my speech, I emphasised that strip searching is sexual assault disguised as prison safety. Strip searching is not about safety – and the data proves it.

There are more than 4000 places in Australia where people can access free clean needles and syringes. But there are none in any prison.

There have been 29 deaths in custody in the first three months of this year.

The family of proud Noongar man Jeffrey Winmar have travelled to Victoria to push for answers and justice at a coronial inquest into his death in police custody in late 2023.

Cells at the courts are so full that people can’t be taken there from prison to attend their hearings.

Project: herself is an organisation I set up to advocate and support women to have self-determined lives. We do that through a couple of things – including storytelling advocacy and frontline service delivery.

Including a death in custody at Acacia prison in WA, Victoria spending the most on youth detention, remand numbers skyrocketing in NSW and more.