A "complete failure to comply with the law" - referring to staff at Banksia Hill (Children's) detention centre - by a Judge #SaveOurKids #RaiseTheAge
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-27/banksia-hill-conditions-again-impact-teen-sentenced/102644216

#SaveOurKids #RaiseTheAge
No-one would ever accuse our "authorities" of loving their "charges". Violence is the go to in Australian Children's Prisons. Try and get police to charge a teacher for assaulting your kid.
Psychological torture? A catholic priest who tells an 11yo their dead brother is in hell because he did not "confess" to a catholic priest in non denominational RI? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-27/corporal-punishment-australia-united-nations/102643940

#DonDale = regular beatings, kids locked in stinking ant ridden cells for 23 hrs a day ... #RaiseTheAge #SaveOurKids https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-22/journal-entries-reveal-life-inside-nt-don-dale-youth-detention/102629816

So, Shane Patton wants more powers for police when they #RaisetheAge to 13. Like as if 10 year olds with be holding society at ransom and police will have no powers to do anything.

He is using youth crime as a imaginary monster to justify more police powers.

It's time to #defundthepolice

#auspol

Original toot date: 23 February, 2023

"Here is me at 14 years old. Children as young as 10 can be jailed in the state of Victoria. Children belong at home, in community and in school. Children who are arrested before the age of 14, are three times more likely to be criminalised as adults.
We must #RaiseTheAge of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14."

Help me spread the word! Ensure #DanAndrews commits to raising the age to 14.

Add you name here 👇
https://tinyurl.com/AmnestyMeAt14

#MeAt14 #AmnestyInternational

House of Horrors (Tasmania)
[Likened to Dondale, Banksia]
#RaiseTheAge #AntiTorture #SaveOurKids https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-04/punishments-for-public-servants-child-abuse-allegations/102546520

#SaveOurKids #AntiTorture #RaiseTheAge
Healthy kids

Lawyers have at least 3 Cases pending in courts for abuse & torture of children while in the custody of Australian govs. It is not enough. Children under the age of 14 do not understand consequences & would not expect to be abused or tortured if they did. We need to raise the age of criminal responsibility.
#RaiseTheAge #AntiTorture #SaveOurKids

In Australia, torture is used as a "teaching tool". It does not teach, it destroys. Some will become the thing they hate and then we continue to torture. The way to change is to change the "authorities" who are both the beginning and end.
#RaiseTheAge #AntiTorture #SaveOurKids

#ToThePoint #DW
I don't believe the West wants to "keep up", that would require us sliding further backwards.
Human Rights are the corner stone of Western society. They should be enhanced, not degraded eg Australia's #raisetheage issue (children as young as ten are incarcerated).
If we maintain and build on Human Rights we have something to protect. If we regress many will doubt we have anything to protect.

We have a law
Where any act of State is inconsistent with an act of the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth prevails. (paraphrased, I'm not certain of the wording but the intent is correct)
Attorneys General have resisted the push to end the torture of kids in institutions for decades (see Amnesty Aus).
The introduction of a federal Human Rights Act (with all govs being subject to it) should require all governments to finally become humane.
#RaiseTheAge #AntiTorture #SaveOurKids

"If you want to create a monster, this is how you do it" a judge.
#RaiseTheAge #AntiTorture #SaveOurKids
https://youtu.be/hpogr4XwXJA

#RaiseTheAge #AntiTorture

Australia takes children as young as 10 and puts then in prisons where they are subjected to cruelty and torture any parent would be imprisoned for.
#RaiseTheAge #AntiTorture
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-25/australias-shame-promo/7649462

Kids in Max sec = ~12. Suicide attempts in less than 12 months = 20.
#RaiseTheAge #AntiTorture
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-15/casuarina-prison-unit-for-banksia-hill-juveniles-to-stay-open/102483016

"Everything happens. It all gets covered up. No-one is held accountable." #RaiseTheAge #AntiTorture
As financial pressures increase on staff & families this problem gets much worse...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-15/malmsbury-youth-justice-closes-workers-react-detention-union/102477984

#RaiseTheAge #AntiTorture

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
26 June- every year

Despite being illegal, torture is prevalent. From torture of children in custody; to police cruelty to a young woman, throwing her around 'like a dead roo' while dying from an abscessed rib; to UN sanctions for non compliance-torture happens here in Australia-to young and old.Let's do something about it
#RaiseTheAge of incarcerated children to 15 would bring us into line with childrens conventions
https://youtu.be/rmfAf5W5dD4

Inmates: young people's isolation increases their anxieties, anger, and frustration
Guards: have reported being bullied, intimidated and unheard (by DoJ)
Close Banksia Hill Torture Chamber! #RaiseTheAge
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-12/banksia-hill-staff-email-department-justice-warns-of-jail-time/102455874

#RaiseTheAge #CLOSEBANKSIAHILL
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-08/banksia-hill-juvenile-detention-centre-custodial-services-report/102451022