Ashley Youth Detention Centre
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Commission of Inquiry report welcome but proposed Pontville site for detention centre is ‘appalling’
26th Sep 2023The Australian Lawyers Alliance welcomes many of the recommendations in the report released today from the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings, but strongly objects to the Government’s plan to develop a youth detention centre in Pontville.
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Children and the justice system
8th Sep 2022'Only five years after the landmark Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse exposed the shocking abuse of children and young people across this nation over decades, one is tempted to say plus ça change', writes Greg Barns SC.
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