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Category: Justice Health

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Locking up kids has serious mental health impacts and contributes to further reoffending

Summer May Finlay, University of Wollongong; Ee Pin Chang, The University of Western Australia; Jemma Collova, The University of Western … More

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child and youth health, Indigenous health, justice health
Silhouette of a guard inside a watch tower at Goulburn jail.

Prisons still failing First Nations people, Justice Health conference told

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA Three decades after the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, a leading expert on … More

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Indigenous incarceration, justice health, Public Health
ACT Ministers, Emma Davidson (left) and Shane Rattenbury

Raising the Age crucial for health and wellbeing of children and our future: ACT Attorney-General

Jeremy Lasek & Malcolm Baalman – PHAA The timing was impeccable. Just as the ACT’s Attorney-General, Shane Rattenbury MLA, was … More

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child health, Health equity, Indigenous incarceration, justice health, Raise the age
Screenshot of a video message by the Minister for Indigenous Australians, the Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP. The Minister is seated at his desk in his office.

Government promises action and money to counter Indigenous incarceration, Minister tells Justice Health 2021 conference

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA More action at a local level. More partnerships. More targeted funding. Greater research. And real targets … More

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Banner for the Justice Health virtual conference features the PHAA logo and the words "evidence, accountability, action." It also includes the dates, 3-4 November, and the site www.justicehealth2021.com."

2021 Justice Health Conference to focus on Evidence, Accountability, Action.

 Jeremy Lasek – PHAA ‘Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.’ … More

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PHAA applauds ACT for next step to keep kids out of jail

Malcolm Baalman – Public Health Association Australia   In this day and age, it seems incomprehensible that primary school aged … More

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Health equity

Indigenous Australians’ incarceration Gap widens during the pandemic

Introduction: Today on national Close the Gap day, the Public Health Association of Australia released a statement about the rising … More

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Close the Gap, Closing the Gap, Indigenous incarceration, prison, prisoner health

How well do the future leaders in Western Australia #ThinkPublicHealth?

Kelly Kennington, Hannah Pierce, and Elizabeth Connor  The WA election is now days away. Some people, including the WA Opposition … More

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Climate change, Public Health, Raise the age, WA election

Congratulations to the ACT for committing to Raise the Age of Criminal Responsibility

Ingrid Johnston and Michael Doyle   Recently the PHAA was pleased to join with the Raise the Age Coalition in … More

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ACT offers hope in national campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility

Toni Hassan The ACT government has committed itself to raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 in … More

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