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Excellent explainer by Prof Penny Crofts and Dr Honni van Rijswijk on robodebt, the tort of misfeasance and whether those responsible for harms caused can be criminally prosecuted UTS UTS Research @UTSSocialImpact

We’ve spent months on these stories. Thanks to the survivors and descendants who trusted us enough to tell their stories. Revealed: multiple sites of possible secret graves discovered at Stolen Generations institution for children | Stolen generations. theguardian.com/australia-news…

An analysis of war crimes law that applies both to Hamas's atrocities on 7/10 and to the cutting off food and other essential sustenance to Gaza's civilian population. Read leading expert on these issues, professor Tom Dannenbaum. justsecurity.org/89403/the-sieg…

Professor Thalia Anthony questions whether private security guards have a legal basis for exercising police-like powers in the Northern Territory: “They are doing the work of police, but … they're not accountable.” UTS UTS Faculty of Law

The World Health Organisation mission to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza found what they described as a "death zone" – a mass grave, corridors full of medics and solid waste, patients who died due to medical services being shut down. emro.who.int/media/news/who…

Prime Minister Albanese: support an immediate and permanent ceasefire, for all hostages to be released, and for an end to the violence in Gaza. Everyone deserves to be safe. getup.to/WZKgrUxZVhJVqC1

I spent 2 years in the 00s doing voluntary work in Jamaican prisons on these cases + feel qualified to respond to this. So here goes 🧵 I saw a lot of volunteers come + go. One I won't forget. Let’s call her ‘Harriet Cole’. Harri saw the world in simplistic, black and white way

Who killed them? Who is starving them?

In recent weeks children as victim-survivors in their own right have been invisible in political announcements & actions. Their experiences silenced & ignored. Ending gender-based violence in one generation necessitates a transformational focus on delivering improved outcomes

Heavy fines cannot be paid by children. Imposing fines on children worsens their disadvantage and criminalises them. More here: rlc.org.au/news-and-media…

COVID fines became another tool to target over policed children. Read our report here: rlc.org.au/news-and-media…

Children in Tasmania and the ACT were not fined during the pandemic. Children in WA had to be 17. In NSW children as young as 10 were fined.

NSW should abolish penalty notices for children, argue academics Dr Elyse Methven Prof Julia Quilter & Luke McNamara in a report released today. Fixed, expensive fines for children are excessively punitive, discriminatory & ineffective when kids can't pay them rlc.org.au/news-and-media…

NSW has a fines problem but we know how to fix it. We just need politicians to act ⁦Luke McNamara⁩ ⁦Dr Elyse Methven⁩ ⁦Grace Bowles⁩ Redfern Legal Centre⁩ ⁦@PIACnews⁩ ⁦Aboriginal Legal Service⁩ ⁦LawSocietyNSW⁩ ⁦Just Reinvest NSW (JR NSW)⁩ ⁦ lsj.com.au/articles/why-n…

“Interviews told us that … it is wrong to issue penalty notices to children. As they are generally not age-adjusted or means tested, and as most children have no capacity to pay, the main impact of on-the-spot fines is to compound disadvantage”

Yesterday, the NT Police Commissioner announced a snap three-day curfew in Alice Springs. According to Thalia Anthony and Juanita Sherwood “the curfew approach has high risks for little proven gain” theconversation.com/alice-springs-…

Surprised, Outraged and Can’t Understand What is Going On I used to have a ritualistic argument with my partner concerning her affective politics. Whether she is talking about coal mining, abortion, Zionist colonialism or opposition to bike lanes in the city, she always expresses

…politicians, including Dutton, are calling for hardline hate speech laws. “But we have those same politicians engaging in a divisive way of conducting politics that is only likely to increase the division in the community and feed into hatred” smh.com.au/national/more-…

“Australia can and should be doing more… Two million starving people in Gaza need all the help we can muster” ⁦Ed Husic MP ⁦⁦Guardian Australia⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…