The aim of our News & Media page is to keep you abreast of recent developments in the sphere of Justice Reinvestment in Australia. Please feel free to alert us to anything that you think might be worthy of inclusion. Email Courtney Young, Research Associate, AJRP.
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February 2017
- Mary McInerney for The Guardian on Cowra's justice reinvestment project (23.2.17) The small town trying to shift spending from punishment to prevention
December 2016
- The NSW Parliament released a report on justice reinvestment, authored by Lenny Roth
- The Urban Institute released their research report 'Reforming Sentencing and Corrections Policy: The Experience of Justice Reinvestment Initiative States.
October 2016
- The Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee recommended justice reinvestment in The Report on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experience of law enforcement and justice services. In particular, Recommendation 7 and 8.
August 2016
- Fiona Allison produced a video, with support from NAAJA and Amnesty International, explaining justice reinvestment and how it can be used to reduce imprisonment of young people, particularly young Aboriginal people
July 2016
- Fiona Allison released her report: Justice reinvestment in Katherine: Report on initial community consultations
March 2016
- Declan Gooch reports for ABC News (10.3.2016): NSW justice group says invest in early intervention to reduce crime and jail costs
February 2016
- Gino Vumbaca for the Huffington Post (9.2.2016) Getting Tough On Crime Needs A Softer Approach
- Josh Butler discusses Bill Shorten's promise to hold an Indigenous Recognition Referendum and plans to support justice reinvestment programs (10.2.2016) Bill Shorten Promises Indigenous Recognition Referendum Within A Year
- Stefanie Garber for Lawyers Weekly (22.2.2016) Legal bodies call for action on Indigenous incarceration
January 2016
- The Cowra Guardian reports (8.1.2016): Justice Reinvestment program reaches new milestone
December 2015
- Richard Ackland for The Saturday Paper (12.12.2015) Indigenous peoples locked into disadvantages
- Felicity Nelson for Lawyers Weekly (10.12.2015) Law Council urges COAG to act on Indigenous imprisonment
- ABC News on the growing support for justice reinvestment (8.12.2015) Growing support for Cowra justice reinvestment pilot project
November 2015
- Marie McInerney discusses the AMA report card for Indigenous health and its recommendations for Croakey #justjustice (25.11.2015) AMA joins calls for Close the Gap justice target, and justice reinvestment approach
- SBS per NITV report Bill Shorten's Closing the Justice Gap speech given at the University of Melbourne Law School (19.11.2015) Bill Shorten: Closing the Justice Gap speech: Full text and key quotes
- Michelle Gratton for The Conversation (18.11.2015) Labor would promote Indigenous gender equality and add justice to 'closing the gap' targets
- Lenore Taylor for The Guardian (18.11.2015) Labor promises 'justice reinvestment' to reduce number of Indigenous prisoners
- Elizabeth McEntyre, Eileen Baldry and Ruth McCausland for The Conversation (6.11.2015) Here's how we can stop putting Aboriginal people with disabilities in prison
- Ruth McCausland for The Conversation (5.11.2015) Supporting, not imprisoning, Aboriginal people with disabilities could save millions
- Ruth McCausland, Eileen Baldry and Elizabeth McEntyre for The Conversation (4.11.2015) Aboriginal people with disabilities get caught in a spiral of over-policing
- Shalailah Medhora for The Guardian (3.11.2015) Indigenous imprisonment: money is better spent on prevention, expert says
- Emma Alberici speaks to Shane Duffy about Indigenous mental health and incarceration for Lateline (2.11.2015) Interview: Shane Duffy, chair of National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Legal Services
October 2015
- Damien Carrick for ABC Radio National (20.10.2015) The Family Drug Treatment Court in Victoria
- Farrah Tomazin for The Australian (18.10.2015) Youth Parole Board chairman calls for a rethink of juvenile justice
- Elizabeth Elliot for The Conversation (13.10.2015) Young offenders msut be screened for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders before sentencing
- Liam Pieper discusses creative programs to reduce recidivism and assist successful reintegration to society (2.10.2015) Art and incarceration: young offenders unlock their creativity
September 2015
- Maria Sansom for Government News (29.9.2015) Prisoner reoffending hits record high in Victoria
- Saffron Howden for The Sydney Morning Herald (23.9.2015) Once a crime capital, Bourke is now a model for crime reduction
- Richard Willingham for The Age (18.9.2015) Prisons failing to make the state safe: Ombudsman
- Tessa Akerman for The Australian (16.9.2015) Call for rethink as numbers of prisoners jumps 22pc
- Tahmina Ansari for ABC News (1.9.2015) Plans for Bourke justice program to roll out across Australia
August 2015
- Daniella Miletic for The Age (24.8.2015) Children languishing on remand 'scandalous': child commissioner
- Melissa Sweet for Crikey (21.8.2015) Calling for national action on discriminatory, unfair laws and systems #justjustice
- Melissa Sweet for Crikey (5.8.2015) Western Australia: wake up to yourself #justjustice
July 2015
- Rob Hulls for The Australian (31.7.2015) Restorative justice can repair the damage
- Melissa Sweet for Crikey (24.7.2015) Calling for justice reinvestment and safe communities #justjustice
- Felicity Nelson for Lawyers Weekly (13.7.2015) Invest in people not prisons: LCA
- Calla Wahlquist on the effects of FASDs on Indigenous children and the links to education disruption and increased incarceration for The Guardian (10.7.2015) Foetal alcohol syndrome should be recognised as disability, says report on Indigenous alcohol use
June 2015
- Calla Wahlquist reports for The Guardian (25.6.2015) Indigenous people in West Australia's prisons to get 24/7 legal advice
- Michael Safi for The Guardian (18.6.2015) Could this experiment in Bourke be the asnwer to Australia's Indigenous incarceration crisis?
- Lara Palombo for The Conversation (17.6.2015) Post-release mentoring succeeds in everything but winning funding
- Amanda Porter for The Conversation (15.6.2015) 'Tough on crime' is creating a lost generation of indigenous youth
- Ryan Emery for SBS News (11.6.2015) Damning findings on Indigenous incarceration in WA
- Norman Hermant reports on Amnesty's findings and recommendations for the ABC (2.6.2015) Amnesty Internation condemns 'shocking' rates of Indigenous youth detention
- Calla Wahlquist for The Guardian (2.6.2015) Indigenous youth imprisonment rate the highest in two decades, Amnesty says
May 2015
- Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International speaks with Lateline about human rights violations in the context of indigneous imprisonment rates (26.5.2015) Interview: Salil Shetty
- Professor Tom Calma writes for Crikey (26.5.2015) #justjustice
- Michael Safi for The Guardian (18.5.2015) Indigenous-run social programs the solution to high prison rate, forum told
- Gerry Georgatos for The Stringer criticises incremental change (5.5.2015) Stuff the reports, research - Sam Cook has shown the way, let's hit the streets to end racisim
- Joshua Robertson from The Guardian (3.5.2015) Indigenous incarceration at record levels as Queenlsand's prison population soars
- Peter Norden for The Conversation (3.5.2015) Prevention not prison: justice reinvestment makes dollars and sense
April 2015
- Lindy Kerin from ABC News reports (30.4.2015) National Justice Coalition launch strategy to reduce over-representation of Indigneous people in custody
- Simon Rosenberg in SMH (29.4.2015) Prison investment needs justice reinvestment
March 2015
- Michael Safi from The Guardian on the NSW election (25.3.2015) Indigenous issues largely ignored in NSW election campaign, say community
February 2015
- Chris Merritt and Nicola Berkovic for The Australian reports Law Council president Duncan McConnel's support for JR (20.2.2015) Change judicial system to cut indigenous incarceration: Law Council
- Marie McInerney for Crikey on justice targets (11.2.2015) Where to after "profundly disappointing" Closing the Gap report? Justice targets, renewed funding, and much much more
- ABC News highlighting the Just Reinvest pilot in Bourke (5.2.2015) Jail break: Western NSW police support trial to keep Indigenous youths out of prison
- Gino Vumbaca, director of Just Reinvest NSW for The Age considers JR and Indigenous incarceration (4.2.2015) Prison is not the answer but perhaps justice reinvestment is
January 2015
- Lawyers Weekly reports on HRLC calls for community based crime prevention services (14.1.2015) Lawyers call for alternatives to prison
December 2014
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Gerry Georgatos for The Stringer (14.12.2014) The joke on First Peoples – “Go straight to jail”
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Gavin Coote ABC News reports on the Bourke Justice Reinvestment Project (11.12.2014) NSW justice group says re-think on funding allocation could reduce Indigenous incarceration rates
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Senator Rachel Siewart comment for SBS (10.12.2014) A long way to go for the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
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Gavin Coote reports for Government News on need for change for Aboriginal youth (10.12.2014) Detaining Aboriginal youth: child protection to prison
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Joshua Robertson reflects on cost savings report (3.12.2014) Queensland could save $263m by small change to youth justice, report says
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Ruth Barson, HRLC writes for WA Today (2.12.2014) Justice targets needed to reduce indigenous disadvantage
November 2014
- Living Black with Stefan Armbruster on Palm Island (19.11.2014) No justice a decade on from horrific Palm Island death in custody
September 2014
- Anna Vidot ABC PM considers the spike in incarceration of Indigenous women (16.9.2014) Incarceration of Indigenous women spikes in past year
- ABC RN Law Report on whether locking up more people actually builds a safer community (16.9.2014) Tackling Crime
- Developments in Cowra re JR and youth (8.9.2014) Cowra youth study to benefit community
- Law Reform, Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee, a Joint Investigatory Committee of the Parliament of Victoria, recommends investigation of JR (3.9.2014) Inquiry into the supply and use of methamphetamines, particularly ‘ice’, in Victoria
August 2014
- Tammy Solonec presents the 2014 SIR RONALD WILSON LECTURE (5.8.2014) Justice Reinvestment - What difference could it make in WA?
- Tom Mcllroy reports for Canberra Times on ACT Government approach to JR (18.8.2014): Community programs reap $1m from confiscated criminal assets
- Guardian Q&A with Indigenous Youth Ambassador (22.8.2014) Q&A with Kaleesha Morris, Indigenous youth ambassador
July 2014
- Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop for ABC (3.7.2014) Australia's prison system overcrowded to bursting point with more than 33,000 people in jail
June 2014
- Warren Barnsley for NIRS (16.6.2014) Justice reinvestment approach needed for WA: Greens
May 2014
- Ann Arnold reports on JR in Victoria (29.5.2014) Clogging prisons in the name of tough politics
March 2014
- Cowra Guardian reports on next stage in ARC grant exploratory study on JR (27.3.2014): Research project launches to keep young people out of jail
- ProBono News Australia reports on use on funds to help victims and at risk youth (4.3.2014): Confiscated Crime Cash Helps Victims and Youths
February 2014
- Ryan Emry reports for World News Australia (5.2.2014): WA's youth justice - changed for the better?
January 2014
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Cowra Guardian reports on ARC grant exploratory study on JR in Cowra (10.1.2014): Keeping young people out of jail
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Craig Quatermaine reports for NITV News (6.1.2014): WA senator slams proposed cuts to Indigenous services
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Patricia Karvelas reports for the Australian (3.1.2014): Mundine concession 'sets up defeat and surrender'
December 2013
- Sunraysia Daily reports on calls from Victorian ALS to deal with Ice users within a new JR approach (28.12.2013): Funding key to tackling threat
- ABC News reports comments by Chris Gulaptis, member for Clarence (16.12.2013) Nationals' MP says lessons learned from Grafton jail closure.
- Jessica Grewal,The Northern Star, reports AG Greg Smith's comments about the closure of Grafton jail and the Justice Reinvestment model (16.12.2013): Parliamentary inquiry fails to secure Grafton jail's future
- Senator Penny Wrights gives speech about Indigenous incarceration and justice reinvestment (4.12.2013): Changing the story of indigenous incarceration
October 2013
- Australian Indigenous Health Info Net reports on meeting between Justice reinvestment 'campaign champions' and NSW Government (25.10.2013): Justice reinvestment campaign champions discuss new policy approach with NSW Government
September 2013
- Pro Bono Australia on the Jesuit Social Services National Symposium (17.9.2013): Rethink Needed on Youth Justice System
- Farrah Tomazin in The Sunday Age (1.9.2013): Justice demands a smarter, not tougher, solution
August 2013
- Christine Heard reports for SBS (27.8.2013): Blog: The future of justice reinvestment
- Christine Heard reports for SBS (26.8.2013): Keeping young offenders out of prison
- Stuart Ross's Comment via SBS (26.8.2013): The unfinished business of reducing Indigenous incarceration
- Christine Heard reports for SBS (26.8.2013): Justice reinvestment: an ounce of prevention?
- Andrea Petrie in The Age (25.8.2013): Tough-on-crime stance at odds with global trend
- Colleen Egan in The West Australian interviews Chief Justice Wayne Martin (17.8.2013): More crime remedies needed: judge
- AHRC releases report (8.8.2013): Justice Reinvestment for people with disability could save millions
- Karen Ashford reports for SBS (7.8.2013): Teens promote justice reinvestment, through rap
- Patricia Karvelas in The Australian reports on Greens proposals (1.8.2013): Greens bid to direct Indigenous offenders from jail in pilot program
July 2013
- Senator Penny Wright speaks about the Justice Reinvestment Inquiry in the Guardian (11.7.2013): Australian's culture of incarceration has gone too far
June 2013
- Natashia Robinson in The Australian reporting on the senate inquiry (21.6.2013): Senate committee slams jails as a 'failed institution'
- John Falzon, Chief Executive Officer of the St Vincent Paul Society National Council of Australia comments in Eureka Street (17.6.2013): Humiliation at the heart of homelessness
- Gabrielle Knowles in The West Australia reporting on comments by Mr O'Callaghan, Fresh Start Recovery Program (7.6.2013): Top cop calls for drug help for prisoners
- Annoucement of an exploratory study to explore the potential of Justice Reinvestment in Cowra (5.6.2013): Rethinking the justice system
- Patricia Karvelas in The Australian reports on comments by the National Children's Commissioner (4.5.2013): Rethink call to keep kids away from crime
- Reflections on the success of the Oaks Estate program in The Canberra Times (2.6.2013): World watches as village turns its back on crime
May 2013
- NIRS speaks to National Convenor, Michael Smith, NACL, about the opportunities for justice reinvestment (21.5.2013): Community legal centres back new justice strategy
- Emily Moulton in The Australian reporting comments by WA's former DC chief judge Antoinette Kennedy (16.5.2013): Former chief Judge: Solve WA's prison crisis
- AAP in Herald Sun reporting comments by WA's former chief judge Antoinette Kennedy (16.5.2013): WA prisons in crisis:former top judge
- Georgia Wilson on ABC Central West NSW on developments in Bourke, and interview (audio) between Angela Owens and ATSI Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda (13.5.2013): Having a say on safety
- Greg Ansley in The New Zealand Hearld reflecting on the state of play in WA (13.5.2013): Making the solution fit the crime
- Announcing the Bourke Aboriginal Community Working Party meeting in Daily Liberal (10.5.2013): Program aims to strengthen Bourke
- Lorraine Davies in ABC News reporting comments by Chief Magistrate (NT) Hilary Hannam (9.5.2013): Chief Magistrate's report puts justice on trial
- Amanda Banks in The West Australian reporting comments by Supreme Court Chief Justice (WA) Wayne Martin (8.5.2013): Top judge backs new crime plan
- Peter Jean, Larissa Nicholson and Michael Inman announce sentence inquiry in ACT in The Canberra Times (8.5.2013): Sentencing Inquiry as jail hits capacity
- Rob Hulls in The Age, Comment (6.5.2013): Memo Premier: being 'tough on crime' doesn't work
- Daniel Emerson, Kate Emery and Luke Eliot in The West Australian (6.5.2013): Life for crime prevention spending
- Amanda Banks in The West Australian (4.5.2013): Revealed: WA's crime hotspots
- Peter Norden, Adjunct Professor RMIT University writes for The Conversation (3.5.2013): Prevention not prison: justice reinvestment makes dollars and sense
- Robert Tickner, Australian Red Cross on RN Breakfast presented by Fran Kelly, ABC Radio (1.5.2013) Incarceration rise causes blowout in prison costs
April 2013
- Steve Cannane for Lateline, ABC (17.4.2013): Inquiry into prevention rather than prison (video & transcript)
- Emma Alberici for Lateline, ABC (16.4.2013): Texas experience with justice reinvestment (video & transcript)
- Patricia Karvelas in The Australian reflecting on the Senate Inquiry and the submission by NT Chief Magistrate Hilary Hannam (15.4.2013): Jail 'holds no fear for the hungry'
- Gerry Georgatos comments in The Stringer on the Senate Inquiry (9.4.2013): National inquiry into Justice Reinvestment
- Human Rights Law Centre on the Senate Inquiry (5.4.2013): The value of a justice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia
March 2013
- Peter Hackney writes about Redfern’s ‘Clean Slate Without Prejudice’ program (28.2.2013):Indigenous sucess story needs funds to survive
- The AJR Project and more then 100 other individuals and bodies make submissions to the Federal Senate Inquiry into Value of a justice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia. The AJR Project submission (no 114) can be found here.
February 2013
- Gino Vumbaca writes opinion piece for SMH on JR, the harms of prison and The National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (4.2.2013): No hard sell needed to rehabilitate, not lock up, indigenous offenders
January 2013
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Natasha Robinson & Patricia Karvelas in The Australian (9.1.2013): 'Prison Industry' traps Aboriginal children