New role created to address over-incarceration of Indigenous people but critics say it lacks power and independence Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community Queensland’s new First Nations justice
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Prohibitionist approach risks fuelling the black market, worsening health outcomes and sending people to jail unnecessarily, experts say Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The criminalisation of nicotine vaping risks “unintended consequences” including fuelling the
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Government says Acma will be able to impose a compulsory code of conduct against disinformation on digital platforms Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The media
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Supreme court justice dismisses lawyer’s application, finding there is a ‘near inevitability’ the boy will offend again Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A Victorian supreme
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Attorney general promises a ‘whole range’ of modernisations of the Privacy Act to follow new customer data protection laws Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The right to be forgotten and a right to sue
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Labor cannot specify exactly how the body would work in future as it would be subject to the government of the day, expert group members say Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails,
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The New South Wales Supreme Court has ordered a judicial review in the convictions of the so-called ‘Croatian Six’. Justice Robertson Wright said there are doubts and questions about the evidence used to convict the men in 1981. This episode first aired in
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Changes limiting access to key documents were made without consultation and only publicly revealed last week Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Senior journalists and editors
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If recommendation is approved, he will be first foreign judge appointed since two British judges resigned citing concerns about freedom crackdowns Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Former Australian high court justice Patrick Keane has
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Witness also tells committal hearing for Greg Lynn, the man charged with their murder, that he saw a drone flying over site Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily
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