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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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