The head of the Bandidos bikie club has slammed the kind of insignia bans and anti-association laws his Victorian members may ...

More than 30 antisemitic incidents were recorded in 2024, including students performing Nazi salutes, drawing hate symbols ...

"If you look at Dickens, Zola, Tolstoy or any of those authors, there's that feeling of all the world is here – that's what ...

Victoria’s proposal to send 14–17 year olds into adult courts ignores international law, expert evidence and decades of failed policy. Rehabilitation, not punishment, is what reduces future harm. The ...

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It is a tale of heart-wrenching misery, a story of determined cruelty and punishments that would normally break a grown man, let alone three small Hampshire boys aged just four and five. This ...

When Premier Jacinta Allan is photographed proudly advancing Victoria’s Treaty process, she is rightly praised. But in the same breath, her government is expanding some of the most punitive youth ...

If state governments across Australia are serious about youth crime, they must abandon headline-grabbing, punishment-heavy reforms and invest instead in prevention, early intervention and healing.

Amnesty International calls on the Victorian Labor Government to abandon its proposed Adult Time for Violent Crime laws, which would allow children as young as 14 to face adult sentencing and ...

It was the barnacle hanging around Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s neck. Stubborn, sticky, mounting and, ultimately, debilitating. So with just a year until the next state election and internal ...

They’re famously thought of as a buttoned up prudish bunch, but we all know they loved to bump uglies as much as anyone today. Were the spanking punishments of boarding schools really the origins of ...