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Community is Everything Australia
CIE Newsletter | March 2025
4 March 2025 | 11:59 pm

Yaama! Welcome to our monthly CIE Newsletter! We are really excited to share with you some news about our CIE (Community Is Everything) campaign, our Firestick Flick for this month and much more! But first, let us introduce ourselves – Uncle Rodney Dillon is a Palawa man, and our Indigenous Rights Advisor. Kacey Teerman is […]

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Community is Everything Australia
Firestick Flicks – Living Black: Freedom Rides
4 March 2025 | 11:28 pm

Accessibility – The Amnesty International website has built in accessibility tools to help ensure that our activism is inclusive. To open the accessibility menu click on the accessibility icon located at the bottom right of your screen. Last year the Indigenous Rights team launched our new film club, Firestick Flicks, as part of our NAIDOC […]

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Community is Everything Australia
Firestick Flicks – Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky
20 January 2025 | 12:42 pm

Accessibility – The Amnesty International website has built in accessibility tools to help ensure that our activism is inclusive. To open the accessibility menu click on the accessibility icon located at the bottom right of your screen. Last year the Indigenous Rights team launched our new film club, Firestick Flicks, as part of our NAIDOC […]

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Community is Everything Australia
CIE Newsletter | December 2024
5 December 2024 | 1:16 pm

Yaama! Welcome to our monthly CIE Newsletter! We are really excited to share with you some news about our CIE (Community Is Everything) campaign, our Firestick Flick for this month and much more! But first, let us introduce ourselves – Uncle Rodney Dillon is a Palawa man, and our Indigenous Rights Advisor. Kacey Teerman is […]

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Community is Everything Australia
Firestick Flicks – Audrey Napanangka Film
4 December 2024 | 4:39 pm

Accessibility – The Amnesty International website has built in accessibility tools to help ensure that our activism is inclusive. To open the accessibility menu click on the accessibility icon located at the bottom right of your screen. Back in July, the Indigenous Rights team launched our new film club, Firestick Flicks, as part of our […]

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Human Rights Act Australia
Social media ban: what is it and what will it mean for young people?
29 November 2024 | 2:12 pm

Update Across Australia, young people under 16 will be banned from social media after the Government passed the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 on November 28, 2024. The ban will take effect in 12 months’ time, allowing social media companies time to comply with the new laws. Under these laws, social […]

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Photo of a children's hand on a fence
Community is Everything Australia
Your guide to the Queensland election
29 October 2024 | 9:33 am

Update The results are in. In the wake of the election, help us tell the newly elected Queensland Government that kids don’t belong in jail cells. Together we won’t stop fighting for the rights of kids and the justice of First Nations communities. The Liberal National Party’s ‘adult crime adult time’ policy is set to […]

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Young child's hand behind a fence.
Community is Everything Australia
‘Adult crime adult time’ policy flies in the face of all evidence
28 October 2024 | 3:10 pm

In the wake of the Queensland Liberal National Party sweeping to power on a ‘tough on youth crime’ platform, Amnesty International Australia urges Premier David Crisafuli to actually look at the evidence on how best to address the root causes of youth offending. “We call on Premier David Crisafuli to explain why he thinks he […]

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Raise the Age
Community is Everything Australia
Amnesty’s 2024 QLD Election Toolkit
3 October 2024 | 4:08 pm

Kids don’t belong in prison. This election Queensland needs to start listening to first nations voices and properly fund justice reinvestment, end the use of adulty watch houses for kids and raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14. Queensland locks up more kids than anywhere else in Australia. First Nations kids make up nearly […]

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Community is Everything Australia
CIE Newsletter | September 2024
6 September 2024 | 1:17 pm

Yaama! Welcome to our monthly CIE Newsletter! We are really excited to share with you some news about our CIE (Community Is Everything) campaign, our Firestick Flick for this month and much more! But first, let us introduce ourselves – Uncle Rodney Dillon is a Palawa man, and our Indigenous Rights Advisor. Kacey Teerman is […]

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