This study addresses the disproportionate incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia by co-designing an Indigenous community-led, culturally responsive prevention framework. The resulting framework comprises three interconnected levels: universal outcomes for thriving children, connected families and empowered communities, rights-based systemic reforms, and culturally grounded program elements across the life course.

This report considers the exercise and enjoyment of human rights by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including progress, barriers impeding enjoyment, and approaches required to uphold and protect rights. The report reveals systemic inequality for First Peoples. It includes a Blueprint for a fair and just future for First Peoples and 25 recommendations.

This research report describes the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with the criminal legal system in Western Australia, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. The findings confirm the lasting impacts of colonisation and intergenerational trauma, which create the conditions that lead Indigenous people into engagement with the criminal legal system.

Rehabilitating and reintegrating prisoners is critical for improving community safety and reducing the high cost of running prisons. Ravenhall Correctional Centre, a private prison in Victoria, offers a unique model for reducing reoffending. This audit finds Ravenhall's overall results for reducing reoffending fall short of performance targets and is similar to other Victorian adult male...

A suite of practical resources to support police custody oversight and strengthen domestic implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). They are living documents that can be adapted and updated by individual National Preventive Mechanism domestic monitoring bodies as suits them best.