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Julie Williams, Community Engagement Lead for JR Mt Druitt (pictured right), participated in The Australia Institute’s Summer Series podcast based on a webinar released in January 2022. Everyone knows that children do best when they are supported, nurtured and loved. But across Australia, children as young as 10 can be arrested by police, charged with […]

Aboriginal people in the town famously visited by the Freedom Ride are taking an innovative approach to their community’s problems Originally published by Inside Story 11 June 2021. Author: Robert Milliken Moree might be booming thanks to cotton and other crops, but many of the benefits haven’t yet reached the local Aboriginal people, the Kamilaroi, […]

Originally published by The Guardian, January 22, 2021. Author: Laura Murphy-OatesThe young adult: Isaiah spent his teen years in and out of youth detention. Now he’s using his experience to reach others like him in western Sydney It’s five minutes before kickoff of the Penrith Oztag men’s semifinals in western Sydney, and there’s a problem. Two players […]

Just Reinvest NSW Youth Ambassadors Isaiah Sines and Terleaha Williams published an opinion editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald on July 28, 2020 . Do you fear us? Why else does a 10-year-old Aboriginal kid need to be caged? The nation’s attorneys-general met on Monday to discuss whether to raise the age of criminal responsibility. They […]

Opinion editorial by Sarah Hopkins, and Daniel Daylight (pictured left at the ‘Mounty Yarns’ Listen to Change community event in March 2023), was originally published in The Guardian 15 June 2020. The current model makes first nations people feel scared, marginalised and angry If you are waiting on the platform at a train station and […]