Juvenile Detention

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Health & Medicine

Giving everyone the right to sport

Sport and physical activity are designated as human rights, so young people in the justice system need to be equitable access too

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Health & Medicine

Too young for Facebook, old enough for prison?

Children can’t sign up to Facebook until age 13 but in Australia they can be prosecuted for a criminal offence at age ten, and that needs to change

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Politics & Society

Teenage crime and language disorder

Research into teenage crime uncovers the invisible disorder holding many offenders back

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Politics & Society

Children entitled to a life where their rights are protected

The confronting scenes at a juvenile detention centre are another illustration of Australia’s appalling history of institutional child abuse

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