Publications

Cameron Atfield reports in the Brisbane Times (26.5.16) on the findings of a US expert in juvenile justice, tasked by the state government with recommending improvements

Amy Remeikis reports in the Brisbane Times (25.5.16) on the state government’s moves to bring Queensland’s age of consent laws for sexual acts into line with

Peter Mares writes in Inside Story (18.5.16) about the continuation of cuts to government funding for legal aid. He observes that barristers and solicitors have taken the

Amy Remeikis reports in the Brisbane Times (11.5.16) on the state government’s promised move to remove allowance for the so-called ‘gay panic’ defence from Queensland law.

Amy Remeikis repoirts in the Brisbane Times (10.5.16) on independent Cairns MP, Rob Pyne’s private member’s bill to decriminalise abortion, introduced into state parliament today. Both

Policy Online carries a link (2.5.16) to an Australian Institute of Criminology report outlining how education courses for prison system inmates can reduce rates of reoffending

Tony Moore reports in the Brisbane Times (1.5.16) on Griffith University research which suggests that lock-out laws aiming to curb alcohol-fuelled violence around nightclub venues are

Lawyers Alison and Jillian Barrett comment in the Brisbane Times (15.4.16) on the legal avenues open to victims of domestic violence, as a national legal body

Craig Longman writes in The Conversation (15.4.16) about continuing problems in the treatment and sentencing of Indigenous offenders, and investigations into police actions, twenty-five years after

Chris Cunneen writes in The Conversation (14.4.16) about a supposed ‘punitive culture’ in Australia supporting some governments’ readiness to incarcerate and impose ‘tough’ criminal sentences upon

Jane Lee reports in the Brisbane Times (14.4.16) on calls from the Law Council of Australia for states to repeal mandatory sentencing laws for so-called ‘one-punch’

Chris Irwin writes in The Conversation (8.4.16) about the likelihood that introducing a zero blood alcohol limit for drivers would help to reduce road fatalities. He