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Tough on crime policies do not work, a senate inquiry has been told as advocates call for oversight of state and territory youth justice legislation.

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Dotted across northern Australia are 21 saltwater crocodile farms, home to around 130,000 crocodiles. Their skins are turned into crocodile leather, long sought for use in luxury handbags, belts and other items.

A late former Liberal minister who served in the cabinets of two prime ministers has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.

But Queensland and New South Wales still hold out on agreement that will see southern states get a 5% boost in commonwealth public school funding

Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, was an actress of enormous and wide-ranging talent across a 60-year stage and screen career. Plowright was “perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century”, in Variety’s words. She was certainly a leading pioneer in post-war British theatre’s modernisation – particularly…

There is no evidence supporting a government's child protection reforms, a children's commissioner says.

The Northern Territory government has been urged to drop proposed changes that would make it easier to remove Aboriginal children from their communities.

A former gas company executive will play a key role under new powers to accelerate economic projects and override existing protections.

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

At the state level, Labor has legitimised the idea of a ‘tough’ approach by claiming to offer it – then have been thrashed by oppositions promising to be even tougher