Monique Hurley
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Associate Legal Director at the Human Rights Law Centre ( @humanrightsHRLC ). She/her. On stolen land.
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In historic but long overdue news, public drunkenness reforms have overwhelmingly just passed the lower house of the Victorian Parliament (52 to 25 votes).
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My heart breaks for children in the NT - they deserve so much better than this.
Country Liberals to lower criminal age to 10 years old in NT as Finocchiaro talks tough on law and order
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Huge news:
The Coroner in the inquest into
#TanyaDay
's death in police custody will refer police officers to the DPP for criminal investigation. Tanya's family argued from the outset that there was a case to answer when it came to negligent manslaughter.
#JusticeForTanyaDay
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“My name is Dujuan, I am 12 years old. I am from Arrernte and Garrwa Country. I came here to speak with you because the Australian Government is not listening. Adults never listen to kids like me. But we have important things to say...”
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I'm angry too. Angry about your capitulation to the police and conservative media. Angry about another knee-jerk response that will continue to pipeline children into youth prisons. Angry that we have a government who ignores evidence-based reform. And I make no apology for that.
Every serious offender should feel serious consequences.
And every Victorian should feel safe.
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Massive news: The
#VicGov
have made the right decision not to grant Victorian police any new powers to arrest or lock people up once public intoxication is decriminalised in November 2023.
#JusticeForTanyaDay
@humanrightsHRLC
@thevalsmob
@dhadjowa
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Long overdue public drunkenness reforms have just passed the upper house of the Victorian Parliament.
This historic reform is testament to the tireless advocacy of the Day family in seeking for their mum.
#JusticeForTanyaDay
@LouiseApryl
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#BREAKING
: Supreme Court of Victoria finds a prima facie case that prison authorities have breached their duty of care when it comes to taking reasonable care for our client's health during
#COVID19
pandemic.
@FitzroyLegal
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‘Tough on crime’ politics is ineffective and expensive. There’s no evidence that knee-jerk responses work to reduce crime, but an abundance of evidence that such approaches harm children by pipelining more into, and warehousing more in, prisons.
Ground hog day - repeating the law & order auction as to who gets to the bottom of the barrel the fastest with the most draconian carceral responses.
Is the Palaszczuk government a Labor government or an LNP government- hard to tell the difference
@AnnastaciaMP
#qldpol
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These reforms recognise that public drunkenness is a public health issue that requires a public health response, and that no person should be locked up just for being drunk in public.
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Me at about 10, in grade 5 at Bacchus Marsh Primary School. Right now, across Australia, outdated laws allow for children this young to be arrested and locked up in police and prisons cells.
#RaiseTheAge
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The legacy of the one and only
@SophieTrevitt
lives on in Alice Springs, with former NT Police officer Zachary Rolfe referring to her as a "recidivist" complainant about police misconduct. Forever remembered as a staunch and unrelenting advocate for holding police to account.
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Australia is in the midst of a mass imprisonment crisis. For years, governments across the country have parroted the line that prisons support community safety, all to justify spending billions of dollars on prison expansion. But the premise is false.
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But this is not the end of the road. Now members of the upper house must vote in support of wiping public drunkenness laws from the statute books once and for all.
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The Coroner has found that Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman - Veronica Marie Nelson’s - death in custody was preventable.
#JusticeForVeronicaNelson
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Content for children as young as 10 to be arrested, handcuffed, hauled before the courts and locked away in prison cells but draws the line at Facebook 🤯
We’ll legislate a minimum age for social media to keep children safe.
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“To be an independent investigation, you can't be a police officer. You can't be a police officer investigating other police officers. That just doesn't make sense to me.” - Jai’s dad, Lachlan Wright
#JusticeForJai
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ICAC’s investigation into racism within NT Police has uncovered evidence ‘so offensive that I do not consider it in the public interest that they be circulated’.
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“So: be kind, be brave. Fight for justice. Fight to make people safe. Expect better from those in power. Today and all tomorrows, ask yourself: what would Sophie do?”
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Big news coming out of Tasmania today:
STATEMENT: Tasmania has committed to raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 with no exceptions alongside raising the minimum age of detention to 16 by 2029. The
#RaiseTheAge
campaign welcomes this announcement.
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“I call on all Australian states and territories to ban solitary confinement as a means of discipline or control for children in detention. It is never acceptable, for any length of time” - Australia’s national children’s commissioner,
@AnneHollonds
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Victoria does not need more police. We need a system that holds the (too many) police we already have accountable for their actions, and for the
@DanielAndrewsMP
government to divert excessive police funding into front line community services.
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Rest in power, friend. Heartbroken for everyone whose lives you touched. The most formidable of advocates, the kindest of friends, the very best of us. You inspired me to be better, always with such optimism and a sparkle in your eye. Cannot believe you’re gone ���️
To the uncountable everyone that loved her and were inspired by her: this little legend, this total legend, the kindest, the bravest, the most ridiculous, the best, our hero, our most precious one:
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People in Tasmanian prisons are being detained in constantly lit cells with no running water, window to the outside world or way to call for medical assistance for up to 10 days at time, in a practice that breaches the UN minimum standards.
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Today marks 5 years since proud Yorta Yorta woman, mum, grandma and advocate Aunty Tanya Day died in police custody. Thinking of her and her family today 💗
@apryl__louise
@dhadjowa
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"In the last 30 years, hundreds of Aboriginal people like our mum have died at the hands of the police, yet no police officer has ever been held criminally responsible." - The Day family.
#JusticeForTanyaDay
@BgoAddy
@LouiseApryl
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But when a grown man can allegedly beat a black child to death & the response from law enforcers is that this child was in the “wrong place, wrong time”, while he was WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL WITH HIS FRIENDS, then where is the right place? When is the right time? -
@boneybrooke
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“The two police officers who failed to properly check on our mum, and instead left her to die on the floor of a police cell, have been let off,” the devastated and angry Day family said.
#JusticeForTanyaDay
@LouiseApryl
@callapilla
@GuardianAus
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This is me (about age 10) mucking around with my cousin Mia.
Currently kids this young can be locked up in prison cells.
Time is long overdue for governments to
#raisetheage
of legal responsibility to at least 14.
Kids belong in schools and playgrounds, not prisons cells.
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The newly re-elected
@DanielAndrewsMP
government must now stop propping up a system of cruelty and end Victoria’s mass imprisonment crisis. This starts with raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14 years old and fixing the state’s bail laws.
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When Australia was elected to the UN Human Rights Council, it promised to stand up for human rights in the Asia Pacific region. But when it comes to
#WestPapua
, Australia is missing in action.
Tune into
@ForeignOfficial
tonight to learn more:
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A must read: When Cops Are Criminals by
@RonnieGorrie
. As summed up by Chelsea Watego of
@War_On_Race
in her endorsement on the cover: “A compelling, comprehensive account of one of the most violent and dangerous gangs in the country.”
@scribepub
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Victoria does not need any more prisons. Instead of building more prisons where cruelty is rampant & unchecked, Premier
@DanielAndrewsMP
should be reducing the number of people forced into prisons & investing in housing & social services.
@denhamsadler
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@Ray_Shaw
@rightsagenda
Hey
@Ray_Shaw
this is literally what happened to Tanya Day. She was arrested for being drunk in a public place, locked in a prison cell and died from a head injury she sustained while in custody.
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Australia could free a third of people in prison with little risk to community, new research finds. Plus it's cruel and actually undermines community safety to be locking so many people up behind bars in the first place.
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Police will investigate police in relation to police detaining children in barbaric conditions in police watch houses.
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‘Tough on crime’ politics also obfuscates failures by government to properly support communities. Instead of building more prisons, the Palaszczuk government should address what leads to people being criminalised in the first place.
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Prisons don’t rehabilitate or remedy disadvantage, they compound and exacerbate it. This
#IWD2021
, the Andrews government must step up and fix Victoria’s broken bail laws to end the needless imprisonment of women.
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EVERYONE 👏 DESERVES 👏 TO 👏 BE 👏 SAFE 👏 DURING 👏 A 👏 PANDEMIC 👏
WE 👏 NEED 👏 TO 👏 REDUCE 👏 THE 👏 NUMBER 👏 OF 👏 PEOPLE 👏 TRAPPED 👏 IN 👏 PRISONS 👏 NOW 👏
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Forever and always in awe of the advocacy of the Day family, relentless in their pursuit of
#JusticeForTanyaDay
. Please follow
@LouiseApryl
’s
@dhadjowa
foundation to support families of people who have died in custody.
@MadelineHayman
@SatPaper
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Children shouldn’t be in prison, especially not during a pandemic. Evidence from around the world and NSW is clear - once
#COVID19
enters a prison, it can spread like wildfire.
@DanielAndrewsMP
must reduce the number of people in prisons now, before it’s too late.
#springst
Melbourne Youth Justice Precinct
Address: 900 Park Street, Parkville, VIC
Date: 07/09/2021
Time: 8:00am - 8:00pm
Tier 2 - Get tested urgently and isolate until you have a negative result
#COVID19VIC
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The only
#IWD2022
lunch I’m interested in is one with
@crystalam
@NayukaGorrie
@NeritaWaight
@amanda_j_porter
@tarneen
@drcwatego
.
Join the
@thevalsmob
webinar on
#UnlockingVictorianJustice
here:
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#TanyaDay
’s children - Belinda, Warren, Apryl and Kimberly – are calling on
@DanielAndrewsMP
to repeal this section of the law. If people are too drunk they cannot take care of themselves, the appropriate response is a health-based one, not a criminal one.
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On being strip searched, an Indigenous woman has recounted: “Here I ask you to remember that I am a rape victim, so you can only imagine the horror, the screams, the degrading feeling, the absolute fear and shame I was experiencing”
@GuardianAus
@knausc
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Caroline Martin at
#broadside2019
on the death of
#TanyaDay
: Tanya fell asleep on a train. Instead of calling an ambulance, the ticket inspector called the police. Then the police, instead of calling an ambulance, incarcerated Tanya.
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Well deserved
@VeronicaKoman
. Sending well wishes & solidarity for the
#WestPapua
struggle your way.
ACFID's Sir Ron Wilson Human Rights Award has been awarded to Indonesian lawyer and human rights defender Veronica Koman for her courageous work in exposing human rights violations in the Indonesian Provinces of Papua and West Papua
Read more:
#ACFID2019
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Victoria is in the midst of an ongoing mass imprisonment crisis, and the safe and responsible thing for
@DanielAndrewsMP
to do is to reduce the number of people being pipelined into prisons in the first place.
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Victoria does not need any more prisons.
Instead of pouring millions of dollars into places that harm people, the Andrews Government should be working to reduce the number of people currently behind bars.
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Today marks 3 years since proud Yorta Yorta woman
#TanyaDay
died in police custody. No-one has been held accountable for her death. Sending strength and solidarity to the Day family in their long journey trying to get
#JusticeForTanyaDay
.
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BREAKING: in a massive day for reproductive rights in Australia, a bill decriminalising abortion has just been introduced in the South Australian Parliament.
You can watch via the website here:
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Delivered 65,799 signatures to
@FionaPattenMLC
this morning - alongside
@thevalsmob
@YSASVic
@SmartJusticeYP
@JesuitSocialSer
@WEstjusticeCLC
@YACVic
- calling on the
@DanielAndrewsMP
government to
#RaiseTheAge
of criminal responsibility to at least 14 years old.
#springst
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"Prisons are like cruise ships, they're just incubators,"
@DebKilroy
said. "What we can do is stop the spread now, by releasing the most vulnerable populations inside our prisons." via
@Dana_Adele
@smh
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We can stop Aboriginal deaths in custody by ending the mass imprisonment of Aboriginal people. This starts with:
➡️Repealing mandatory sentencing laws;
➡️Reforming punitive bail laws; and
➡️Raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14.
@NATSILS_
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“No police officer has ever been held criminally responsible for an Aboriginal person’s death in custody, and our mum’s case shows why it’s wrong for police to be investigating the actions of their own colleagues” - the Day family
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Historic day today as long overdue laws decriminalising public intoxication finally come into effect in Victoria. Statement from the family of proud Yorta Yorta woman Aunty Tanya Day is available here:
UPDATE: Tomorrow, being intoxicated in public will be decriminalised in Victoria.
This is an historic and long overdue reform, following sustained advocacy by the Day family in seeking justice for their mother.
Read the family's statement 👇
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“[Deaths in custody] are a systemic issue that involves federal, stare and territory governments. We need leadership from the Prime Minister on this.”
@LouiseApryl
of
@dhadjowa
on
@ABCthedrum
#JusticeForTanyaDay
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#BREAKING
: the 🇺🇳's anti-torture watchdog has published its concluding observations on its recent review of 🇦🇺, and called on the
@AlboMP
government to
#RaiseTheAge
of criminal responsibility in accordance with international standards.
@UNTreatyBodies
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We don’t need more prisons. Victoria has some of Australia’s most onerous and dangerous bail laws, which regularly fail to uphold the most basic tenants of a fair legal system. Presumptions against bail trap too many people in prison, and have got to go.
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The High Court has ruled that the tear gassing of children by prison officers in
#DonDale
was unlawful and that they are entitled to damages in respect of their claims for battery.
Judgment has been handed down in Binsaris, Webster, O’Shea, Austral v Northern Territory of Australia
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On an average night in 2019, there were 949 children behind bars in Australia – more than half of them were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. That's 949 too many kids locked up in prison cells.
@GuardianAus
@lauramoates
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Aboriginal people have the solutions to ending deaths in custody
@SenatorDodson
@lidia__thorpe
@latoya_aroha
@NATSILS_
@thalia_anthony
@GuardianAus
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”There are some things I want to see changed:
👉🏽 I want my school to be run by Aboriginal people.
👉🏽 I want adults to stop cruelling 10 year old kids in jail.
👉🏽 I want my future to be out on land with strong culture and language.”
#RaiseTheAge
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It’s time to end the injustice. It’s time to stop mass-imprisonment. All that’s needed is the political will to stop propping up a system of cruelty and end the injustice.
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Really welcome news to wake up to this morning 🧡
Big News Early this morning at 2:30am, after 22 hours of debate over 3 days, the Termination of Pregnancy Bill passed the House of Assembly. The vote was 29 ayes 15 noes. This was a very decisive margin in favour of supporting the regulation of abortion as health care.
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As people churn through the criminal legal system on a daily basis, there is significant opportunity for
#COVID19
to enter custody centres - mini prisons - and for it to go back out into the community. We urgently need to reduce the numbers of people trapped in the prison system.
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This is
#MeAt13
- rocking hair ribbons that matched my school uniform. Mind boggling that governments across Australia lock up children as young as 10 every day. Children belong in schools - not prison cells. Time is overdue to
#RaiseTheAge
to at least 14 years old.
@rightsagenda
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Children shouldn't be in prisons, and they should never be detained in solitary confinement. International human rights law strictly prohibits its use on children because of the severe, long-term and irreversible impacts it can have.
#Raisetheage
@K_Herlyn
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“We welcome the Andrews government's decision to hear our family’s concerns and not to add or replace already excessive police powers and laws. This is the first time across the nation that a jurisdiction has made a commitment to true decriminalisation.”
@apryl__louise
@dhadjowa
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Should probably also apologise to the 13 year old boy they subjected to a practice that’s banned for use on children by international human rights law, and commit to not caging children in solitary confinement moving forward
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Caging children in police watch houses is unlawful and shockingly cruel. The Palaszczuk Government have always had a legal obligation to move kids out of watch houses quickly. The answer has always been to stop locking kids up in the first place.
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Thoughts with this woman’s family and friends 💔 The status quo of police investigating the actions of other police officers in relation to deaths in custody has got to end.
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Currently across Australia, children as young as 10 can be arrested, charged with an offence, hauled before a court and locked away in prison. CAG will today meet and should commit to
#RaiseTheAge
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In solidarity with Dr Eddie Cubillo and students calling to decolonise Melbourne Law School.
#istandwitheddiecubillo
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Read
@boneybrooke
via
@theage
today: "If a black child can’t walk home from school without fear then this isn’t a civil society. This is lawlessness. This is barbaric. This is shameful."
#JusticeForCassius
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A brave Victorian government would invest in desperately needed community and social services that actually help people, not pour more money into more police.
@benitakolovos
@GuardianAus
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Good morning to everyone except people who don't think access to a safe, legal abortion is a critical healthcare right.
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There needs to be a more diverse panel on
@InsidersABC
- all the time & especially at a time when Uluru statement & constitutional recognition are being discussed
Off the top of my head, thinking:
@LatimoreJack
,
@amymcquire
,
@LukeLPearson
,
@lauramoates
,
@MadelineHayman
#Insiders
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Over 50% of the women detained in Vic prisons are *unsentenced*. Many have not been found guilty of the alleged offending they were arrested for. This is because Victoria has some of Australia’s most draconian and dangerous bail laws.
#springst
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There have been 24 Aboriginal deaths in custody across Australia over the last year. This includes an Aboriginal man who died in custody in Victoria on Sunday, who is the second Aboriginal person to die in custody in Victoria in the last five weeks.
💔 "An Aboriginal prisoner has died in a Victorian jail, the second Indigenous person to die in custody in the state in five weeks."
#BlackLivesMatter
#StopBlackDeathsinCustody
#RCIADIC
#springst
#auspol
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“Police should not be investigating police... Victorians deserve a police force they can trust - a police force that is transparent and accountable when it does wrong. Nobody should be above the law.” -
@RuthHRLC
@thevalsmob
@robinson_gill
@Police_Acc_Proj
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If the recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody over 30 years ago were effectively implemented, and if Veronica had been transferred to hospital at any time following her arrest, her death could have been prevented.
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International human rights law strictly prohibits children being subjecting to solitary confinement because it can amount to torture. It's a barbaric practice that should be banned in NSW and across the country.
@abcnews
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Mandatory sentencing laws have always been wrong in principle, and governments across Australia should repeal such laws as a matter of priority.
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Disappointing result again from the Standing Council of Attorneys-General last Friday, who continue to ignore the chorus of calls + their own Working Group report recommendation to
#raisetheage
to at least 14 years of age, without exception.
@Change_Record
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Privileged to be facilitating this Decarceration Symposium panel tomorrow featuring
@DebKilroy
of Sisters Inside, author and advocate
@RonnieGorrie
, Witt Gorrie of
@FlatOutInc
/ Beyond Bricks & Bars and
@TheTorchVic
's Felicity Chafer-Smith:
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Solitary confinement is a cruel practice that causes irreparable harm to the people who are subjected to it. Governments across Australia must ban the archaic and inhumane use of solitary confinement in prisons today.
@thevalsmob
#EndSolitary
#UnlockingVictorianJustice
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Medical experts, psychologists and criminologists agree that children under the age of 14 years have not developed the social, emotional and intellectual maturity necessary for criminal responsibility.
#RaiseTheAge
#springst
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Victoria will finally have a spent conviction scheme! The upper house of the Vic Parliament has just voted 25-14 in favour of this reform, which will bring us into line with the rest of Aus by providing an avenue for convictions to be spent
#springst
@SmartJusticeYP
@RAPLV
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Massive congrats
@SophieTrevitt
!! Cannot think of anyone who deserves this
@LibertyVic
honour more ❤️❤️ Absolute powerhouse of an advocate and total treat to work alongside 👏👏
We’re very pleased to announce that Sophie Trevitt has won the Voltaire Human Rights Award for 2023, in no small part due to her dynamic and tireless advocacy to
#RaiseTheAge
. Read more here:
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Victoria's bail laws must change, and they must change now. Victoria has some of Australia’s most dangerous and discriminatory bail laws that needlessly remove parents from their families and funnel them into prisons to be warehoused on remand.
#springst
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Safe access zone laws have passed the WA lower house without amendment 🎉 Now one more house to go!
Massive congrats to
@simonemcgurk
,
@RogerCookMLA
and all those MPs who voted for women's rights.
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A thread reflecting on who the DPP decides to prosecute (or more importantly - not). Revelations this week that the DPP will not prosecute the police involved in one of the state’s most dizzying scandals speaks volumes about a system that permits police to act with impunity.
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Massive virtual round of applause to the
@ReblawA
organising team -
@sassy_schwartz
,
@brooke_greenwd
,
@SuzieWnukowska
,
@zoejbush
and
@teelareid
- for an incredibly inspiring and thought challenging conference. Bloody loved every single second 👏
#reblawau
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“Our laws currently criminalise behaviours for some people that is completely overlooked for others... People don’t die in custody coming home from the Melbourne Cup, or from a hen’s night.” -
@RuthHRLC
of
@rightsagenda
via
@perkinsmiki
in
@theage
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Women are overlooked and trapped in WA prisons because they cannot access parole. The WA Government must address this "systemic marginalisation" and reduce the number of women being funelled into prisons as a matter of priority.
@abcnews
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