Queensland has legislated remote camps for children, while Victoria has made it easier to sentence young offenders as adults. Victoria once kept more kids out of jail by investing in community alternatives. That hard-won approach is being lost in the race to sound tough.

Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself: Why does Nauru Airlines exist? There’s a simple answer – Australia’s offshore detention regime. Australia’s “resettlement” program in Naoero req...

According to a survey of 78 asylum seekers on Nauru, 99 per cent said they were regularly skipping meals because they could not buy enough food with their fortnightly allowance, while more than three quarters said they rarely had access to free, clean drinking water.

Administrative review tribunal no longer authorised to alter a person’s plan or reinstate funding, agency confirmed * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme will in most cases no longer be able to appeal their total amount of funding support to any external review body, executives have confirmed, after revelations about automation to be introduced to the organisation. The minister for disability and the NDIS, Jenny McAllister, and National Disability Insurance Agency bosses were peppered with questions at Senate estimates on Thursday about changes to the way NDIS support plans will be generated under a new planning model coming into effect from mid-2026. Continue reading...