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Responding to reports that children are being held in solitary confinement or moved to a Queensland watch house following a staff member testing positive for COVID-19, Amnesty International Australia campaigner, Joel Clark said: “Moving children, many of whom are on remand and haven’t been convicted of any crime, to adult watch houses is totally inappropriate […]

The release today of the Australian Government’s Close the Gap justice targets shows a disappointing lack of leadership in addressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Australian prisons. Amnesty International Australia Indigenous Rights Advisor, Rodney Dillon, said: “These targets along with the failure to show leadership by committing to raise the age of criminal responsibility […]

Responding to the violent arrest of an Indigenous boy in NSW this week, Amnesty International Australia Indigenous Rights Advisor, Rodney Dillon, said: “Sadly, this latest incident is an example of a long history of violence and discrimination leveled at Indigenous people by police all over the country since colonisation. There have been more than 400 […]

Amnesty International Australia has called for a national moratorium on arresting children under the age of 14. Federal Parliament last week passed a motion agreeing in principle to raise the age of criminal responsibility, and the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has recommended Australia raises the age to 14. However, […]

We encourage all Australians to use January 26 as a day to reflect on the effects of colonisation on Indigenous peoples. Effects are still being experienced to this very day in terms of institutional racism, poverty, health and gross over-representation in Australia’s prisons, removal of children and deaths in custody. We encourage our supporters to […]

Your democratically-elected General Meeting Voters will represent members’ voices at the Annual General Meeting in October.

Australian Capital Territory & Southern New South Wales: meet the candidates! Sally Choi My name is Sally Choi and I am currently the Chair of the Youth Advisory Group (YAG). My passion for human rights stemmed as a young girl who fawned over history books, but my discovery of Amnesty happened in my first year […]

Responding to Queensland’s Youth Justice Amendment Bill introduced today, Amnesty International Australia Indigenous Rights Advocate, Joel Clark said: “This is serious reform that goes a long way towards fixing Queensland’s broken youth justice system. By addressing major concerns around bail, this reform will have a positive effect on remand rates. It will reduce the number […]

The Western Australian Government today announced the Premier’s Priorities. One of the targets announced is to: Reduce the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in custody: By 2028-29, reduce the number of Aboriginal adults in prison by 23 percent from 2017-18 numbers. And with regards to children: Reduce youth reoffending: By 2022-23, have no more than 50 […]

You’re invited! On 16-18 December the Labor Party is holding it’s National Conference in Adelaide. Amnesty’s refugee campaigner Shankar Kasynathan and Amnesty’s Advocacy & External Affairs Manager Emma Bull will be there to influence the Labor Party’s policy platform on our key campaign areas – like community sponsorship and raise the age. Party conferences are […]