Children's rights

• Renewed calls to raise minimum age of children in prison

  30th Sep 2021

  With children in prison as young as 10 years old in Australia, there is a growing push for federal, state and territory politicians to finally raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14. Anneka Frayne provides an overview of the statistics around children in prison, findings on cognitive capability and the doli incapax principle and the ongoing negative impacts of detention on young children.

• Gender dysphoria in Australia: The judicial response in Re Kelvin

  21st Feb 2019

  Greg McAllister discusses the case of Re Kelvin and its implications for Australian minors with gender dysphoria who wish to commence hormone therapy.