The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards has today unveiled the shortlist of outstanding works vying for one of Australia’s ...

Being dropped off to school in a police car wasn’t the easiest way to make friends at school for the woman who is now the ...

This week the Victorian government passed youth crime laws that will see children face adult courts and sentencing – reforms ...

Robert L. Docter, former L.A. school board president, supported integration through busing in the 1970s, which cost him ...

Underage teens could now face life behind bars after new laws passed a state parliament as its government fights to get a ...

Children as young as 14 years old could spend life in prison for some violent crimes after the Victorian parliament passed a ...

Victoria is trying to solve youth crime with two clashing instincts: a token investment in care alongside a cascade of punishment, revealing a deeper national preference for vengeance, speed, and ...

A Victorian teen recounts the nightmare of finding their face in an explicit AI deepfake. Charges against teens for deepfake ...

Governments across Australia are responding to perceived youth crime “crises” with harsher laws. But national data tell a ...

Victoria’s proposal to send 14–17 year olds into adult courts ignores international law, expert evidence and decades of failed policy. Rehabilitation, not punishment, is what reduces future harm.

It is a tale of heart-wrenching misery and punishments that would normally break a grown man, let alone three small Hampshire boys.