One in two children in residential care in Victoria are charged with a criminal offence within two years.
Declan Cutler was fatally attacked by a group of teens last year. His father says more children will die if the community doesn’t tackle the scourge of youth knife violence.
The Andrews government on Tuesday introduced its long-awaited bail bill to reform the state’s controversial laws.
The Andrews government will on Tuesday table its long-awaited reforms to the state’s bail laws after a coroner said earlier this year that the current system breached human rights.
Veronica Nelson’s partner and legal experts are calling for urgent bail law reform to prevent further Indigenous deaths in custody as a year-long wait looms for changes.
A coroner found Victoria’s bail laws breached the human rights charter,but a 12-month delay looms for implementing change.
Police said the victim and the accused were known to each other.
Lawyers for Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus say it is illegal to use a “carriage service” to facilitate suicide - even in state-regulated euthanasia schemes.
The Liberals should embrace rehabilitation rather than an expensive tough-on-crime approach,argues Victorian MP Evan Mulholland.
There are no winners in this brutal case,but nothing justifies the public rubbishing of the complainant’s privacy.
Opponents have accused Premier Mark McGowan of using the troubles at Banksia Hill Detention Centre as a ‘political football’,with his rhetoric on the issue changing dramatically after winning two elections.