The National Legal Assistance Partnership (NLAP) is an agreement between the Australian government and States and Territories for the provision of Australian government legal assistance funding. This report presents the findings of a recent review, conducted by Dr Warren Mundy, and also outlines 39 recommendations to inform the future funding arrangements when the current NLAP...

A key recommendation from this interim inquiry report is for the Australian government to urgently and unequivocally commit to publicly releasing exposure draft legislation of the full package of reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 for consultation ahead of the passage of piecemeal legislation in the Australian Parliament.

The authors of this report argue that measures to reduce illicit drug and alcohol use, improve school retention and improve economic outcomes for Indigenous Australians are essential if Australia is to achieve any long-term reduction in the scale of Indigenous over-representation in prison.

This study examines the correlates of First Nations contact with the criminal justice system. Key risk factors include membership of the stolen generation, psychological distress, and having used illicit drugs and alcohol over the preceding 12 months. The latter increases the marginal risk of arrest by 14 percentage points.

This report finds marginalised children were unfairly targeted by COVID-19 fines at the height of the pandemic, highlighting the need for immediate reform of the New South Wales fines system.