News and Media Releases

Australia now spends $1 billion a year locking up children—it's time for a smarter approach

Justice Reform Initiative Media Release, 31 January 2025

January 31, 2025

Kimberley Wilde: Prison record is our shame

The West Australian, 23 January 2025

January 31, 2025

Media Release: ‘Making Qld Safer Bill’ a life sentence for children that fails to make community safer

Justice Reform Initiative Media Release, 29 November 2024

November 29, 2024

Media Release: NT Government must look outside the prison walls to solve overcrowding

Justice Reform Initiative Media Release, 29 October 2024

October 29, 2024

Media Release: Qld shouldn’t waste an opportunity to implement leading crime prevention

Justice Reform Initiative Media Release, 28 October 2024

October 28, 2024

Media Release: 1000 new prison beds, 1000 missed opportunities to break the cycle in the NT

Justice Reform Initiative Media Release, 21 October 2024

October 21, 2024

Coalition of Voices Media Release: Expert coalition urges “eleventh-hour” rethink on government’s regressive justice laws

Coalition of Voices Media Release, 14 October 2024

October 14, 2024

Media Release: We must ‘help way earlier’ – united call to address systemic failures of Australia’s youth justice systems at Parliament today

Justice Reform Initiative and Australian Human Rights Commission Media Release, 10 October 2024

October 10, 2024

Media Release: Wanding won’t work – lack of evidence for latest misstep in the NT

Justice Reform Initiative Media Release, 7 October 2024

October 08, 2024

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