MAKE TEENS RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME, BUT NOT KIDS! Lawyers & doctors want age of criminal responsibility lifted to 14 to stop children as young as 10 ending up in jail

December 17, 2019 Staff Reporters 2
Current laws around Australia allowing authorities to jail children as young as 10 are a “nat
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2 Comments

  1. What a terrible indictment on Australia that we jail such young children when we claim as a country to be a modern liberal democracy with fair treatment for all. There have been numerous inquiries into institutionalized abuse of children in care homes, but as a country we seem happy to keep imprisoning them. Thank you for this important article on a subject the media rarely reports on.

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  2. So we have children as young as 10 going to jail, and now Benito Dutton wants laws allowing the questioning of 14 year olds on their own by ASIO officers. That is a breach of their human rights, the Rights of the Child.

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