Most imprisoned youth reoffend within 12 months of release. Diversion programs are essential to prevent the stigmatising effects of formal justice involvement. With youth detention at crisis point in Australia, and upcoming Senate hearings in February, the time for action is now.
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"I want to work with Stewart Levitt and his firm to ensure that there is a just outcome for what the family of late Kumanjayi Walker and the community of Yuendumu have had to suffer," said Mr Wotton.
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“I’ve seen Indigenous poets performing at the centenary of Palm Island and the event to honour Professor Gracelyn Smallwood. However, I’m aware that there is a strong voice that needs to be heard by the wider community.”
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"The gap in literacy and numeracy skills is so great that rising numbers of Aboriginal Australians are not claiming unemployment benefits because they cannot fill out the paperwork, Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt told a forum."
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"Residents lose 35% for the privilege of lending the money to the developers," he says. "Of course, it's a terrible investment, but it doesn't have to be a terrible investment. I can't see why a simpler and fairer model can't be applied.
"The government says that as long as you explain to everybody that you're being shafted, that's fair enough."
Levitt says the Victorian government, as well as governments in other states, are not really interested in addressing the inequities in the ingoing loan system.
Levitt Robinson has launched a class action in the Federal Court against labour hire company Corestaff on behalf of PNG miners for unlawful termination, underpayment and misleading and deceptive conduct.
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With decades of memories to draw from, lawyer Stewart Levitt has released a book of poetry, #TooSoonToBeLate chronicling his career as a human rights lawyer and exploring his views of politics at home and abroad.
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Stewart Levitt is interviewed by NITV on his latest book #TooSoonToBeLate and the #LevittIndigenousPoetryPrize, a biennial award for poems on political, social or personal themes of particular relevance to Indigenous Australians.
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