The Network
A movement is easier to fund and harder to ignore once it can see its own shape. Here is every justice reinvestment site we have been able to place, grouped by the Country it serves, with the lead organisation named wherever the record holds one.
These numbers are what the public record shows today, not the whole movement. Where a place or a lead organisation is missing, we say so and ask the network to fill it in.
Search the network
One search across every site. Type a town, a lead organisation, a program, a partner, or the name of someone leading the work, and the site it belongs to comes back.
The arc
From a concept named in 2003 to a national tender in 2026, the idea travelled from the page to the Country it now serves. Each step below carries the source that records it.
2003
Susan Tucker and Eric Cadora coin justice reinvestment in the Open Society publication Ideas for an Open Society, proposing that money spent locking people up be redirected into the communities they come from.
Read the source →2010
The Justice Reinvestment Initiative takes hold across US states with support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Council of State Governments, embedding justice reinvestment in state criminal justice reform.
Read the source →2013
A Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee inquiry into the value of a justice reinvestment approach reports to the Australian Parliament, marking the formal arrival of justice reinvestment in national policy debate.
Read the source →2013
The Bourke community and Just Reinvest NSW launch Maranguka, an Aboriginal community-led justice reinvestment site, widely regarded as Australia's first place-based justice reinvestment trial.
Read the source →2017
The Australian Law Reform Commission's Pathways to Justice report recommends Commonwealth, state and territory governments support justice reinvestment to reduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration.
Read the source →2018
An independent KPMG impact assessment finds the Maranguka justice reinvestment model delivered a gross economic impact of $3.1 million in 2017, alongside falls in family violence and youth justice contact in Bourke.
Read the source →2019
The Shire of Halls Creek establishes Olabud Doogethu, Western Australia's first justice reinvestment site, working across Halls Creek, Mulan, Kundat Djaru and Mindibungu.
Read the source →2022
The Australian Government commits $69 million over four years to a National Justice Reinvestment Program supporting up to 30 community-led initiatives, the first sustained Commonwealth investment in the approach.
Read the source →2023
The National Justice Reinvestment Program opens for applications, with Alice Springs and Halls Creek among the first priority sites where funding flows to community-led initiatives on the ground.
Read the source →2024
Grant agreements under the National Justice Reinvestment Program reach communities across every mainland state and territory, with the Attorney-General's Department publishing a list of funded grantees and places.
Read the source →2025
The Central Australia Justice Reinvestment Initiative is announced, including the CAYLUS-led Mampu-Maninjaku project across Nyirripi, Willowra and Yuendumu, alongside the Alice Springs early investment site.
Read the source →2026
With the Measurement and Evaluation Framework finalised and the Interim National Justice Reinvestment Unit operating, the Commonwealth releases a tender to select the organisation that will deliver the national program.
Read the source →The national map
Filter by state to move the map and the list below in step. Each marker opens the lead organisation, the place it serves, and a link to its own site. The national bodies that hold the network together sit in a strip beneath the map.
Grouped by place
Each initiative sits with the place it serves, drawn from the lead organisation on record. Read the verification mark beside each one as a trust signal: a record we hold, a record confirmed, or outcomes a community has verified with its own evidence.
21 initiatives
Just Reinvest NSW
Just Reinvest NSW
A Commonwealth-funded justice reinvestment initiative led by the Cowra Information and Neighbourhood Centre.
Just Reinvest NSW
Just Reinvest NSW
Just Reinvest NSW
Just Reinvest NSW
Just Reinvest NSW
Mounty Yarns
Just Reinvest NSW
Just Reinvest NSW
Just Reinvest NSW
Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation
A justice reinvestment initiative led by Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation, an organisation built by Stolen Generations survivors.
Just Reinvest NSW
A systems change partnership in the Macleay Valley working with Just Reinvest NSW to shift investment toward community-led prevention.
MARANGUKA LIMITED
Just Reinvest NSW
Aboriginal community-led justice reinvestment hub in Bourke, often described as Australia's first major place-based justice reinvestment site.
MARANGUKA LIMITED
Just Reinvest NSW
Just Reinvest NSW
A community-led justice reinvestment site in Moree working with Just Reinvest NSW to keep young Aboriginal people out of the justice system.
Just Reinvest NSW
A western Sydney justice reinvestment site working with Just Reinvest NSW alongside local Aboriginal community organisations.
Just Reinvest NSW
A justice reinvestment site on Yuin Country supported by Just Reinvest NSW and the national network.
Just Reinvest NSW
9 initiatives
Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC
A Central Australia Program initiative delivering justice reinvestment in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) with Tangentyere Council and Lhere Artepe.
Savanna Solutions Business Services Pty Ltd
A justice reinvestment initiative in Katherine delivered by Savanna Solutions Business Services.
Kurdiji Aboriginal Corporation
A Commonwealth-funded justice reinvestment initiative led by Kurdiji Aboriginal Corporation in the remote Warlpiri community of Lajamanu.
Central Australian Youth Link-Up Service (CAYLUS)
A Central Australia Program justice reinvestment initiative across Nyirripi, Willowra and Yuendumu delivered by CAYLUS with Tangentyere Council.
NJA-MARLEYA CULTURAL LEADERS AND JUSTICE GROUP LTD
A justice reinvestment initiative in Maningrida led by the Nja-marleya Cultural Leaders and Justice Group.
NJA-MARLEYA CULTURAL LEADERS AND JUSTICE GROUP LTD
Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC
Ngurratjuta/Pmara Ntjarra Aboriginal Corporation
A Commonwealth-funded justice reinvestment initiative across Papunya, Mt Liebig and Haasts Bluff led by Ngurratjuta/Pmara Ntjarra Aboriginal Corporation.
9 initiatives
Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation
Cape York Institute
Cherbourg Wellbeing Indigenous Corporation
A Commonwealth-funded justice reinvestment project in Cherbourg led by Cherbourg Wellbeing Indigenous Corporation.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Services
Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council
A community-led justice reinvestment project in Doomadgee delivered by Gunawuna Jungai Limited.
Anindilyakwa Royalties Aboriginal Corporation
A justice reinvestment initiative on Anindilyakwa Country, Groote Eylandt, led by the Anindilyakwa Royalties Aboriginal Corporation.
Aboriginal Community Council
Napranum Aboriginal Shire
A justice reinvestment initiative in west Cape York led by the Napranum Aboriginal Shire Council.
Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council
A justice reinvestment initiative in Yarrabah led by Gindaja Treatment and Healing Indigenous Corporation.
5 initiatives
Justice Reinvestment Network Australia
The national peak body connecting and supporting community-led justice reinvestment initiatives across Australia.
Justice Reinvestment SA
A coalition committed to approaches to justice that tackle the root causes of crime, with a special focus on Aboriginal over-representation in South Australia.
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority Inc
A justice reinvestment initiative across Ngarrindjeri Country led by the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority.
Tiraapendi Wodli Ltd
Tiraapendi Wodli Ltd
A Kaurna and Aboriginal community-led justice reinvestment initiative in the Port Adelaide area.
6 initiatives
Ebenezer Aboriginal Corporation
A Commonwealth-funded justice reinvestment initiative in Balga, Perth, led by Ebenezer Aboriginal Corporation.
Gascoyne Development Commission
A justice reinvestment initiative in Carnarvon supported by the Gascoyne Development Commission.
Emama Nguda Aboriginal Corporation
A justice reinvestment initiative in Derby led by Emama Nguda Aboriginal Corporation in the West Kimberley.
Aboriginal Male's Healing Centre Strong Spirit Strong Families Strong Culture Inc.
A justice reinvestment initiative across Newman and Port Hedland led by the Aboriginal Male's Healing Centre in the Pilbara.
Aboriginal Legal Service of WA
A justice reinvestment initiative in Perth led by the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, the largest Aboriginal legal organisation in the country.
Social Reinvestment WA Incorporated
A coalition of around 30 non-government organisations advocating for justice reinvestment and reform across Western Australia.
1 initiative
Jesuit Social Services
1 initiative
Yeddung Mura (Good Pathways) Aboriginal Corporation
Yeddung Mura means good pathways in Ngunnawal. A community-led corporation supporting Aboriginal people on their justice journey in Canberra.
17 initiatives
These initiatives are real and on the record, but we do not yet hold the place or the lead organisation for them. If one of these is yours, or you know where it belongs, tell us and we will move it to its Country. The gap is the invitation.
Ceduna Justice Reinvestment
A community-led justice reinvestment effort in Ceduna connected to the Justice Reinvestment SA network.
First Nations Justice Office (FNJO)
Fitzroy Crossing Justice Reinvestment
Justice Reform Office (JRO)
Australian Government, State and Territory governments
WA Government
JIKA KANGKA GUNUNAMANDA LIMITED
A Commonwealth-funded justice reinvestment initiative on Mornington Island led by Jika Kangka Gununamanda Limited.
Lead organisation to confirm
National Justice Reinvestment Unit (established with $12.5 million funding)
The Commonwealth program funding community-led justice reinvestment, with an interim national unit and a delivery-organisation tender released in 2026.
Australian Federal Government (administered by Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research for design guidance)
The Commonwealth program funding community-led justice reinvestment, with an interim national unit and a delivery-organisation tender released in 2026.
Ntaria Justice Reinvestment
Roebourne Justice Reinvestment
Lead organisation to confirm
The ACT Government strategy to reduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander recidivism by 25 percent by 2025 and beyond, through justice reinvestment.
Shepparton Justice Reinvestment
WestJustice
WestJustice
Warburton Justice Reinvestment
What this becomes
Today each line is a record we hold. Next it becomes a profile the organisation owns and edits, where the community decides what the world may see. We can stage a page; they publish it. See the founding action-profiles for how that works.
A profile carries what a program runs and what it costs, set against the price of detaining a child for a year. When the ledger sits in plain view, the question stops being whether to fund the community and starts being why we still fund the cell.
One site proves a model. Many sites, read together, become an argument a parliament cannot wave away. The map is how the movement makes that argument site by site, in its own words, with its own evidence.
The four founding profiles
Four communities are shaping the profile with us before anyone else is listed. Each is the editor of record for its own page.
Stories beside the map
These stories sit beside the justice reinvestment map so the public record is not only sites, records, and states. It carries the people and communities making the alternative real.
When you're at bush, it makes you feel grounded. It gives you peace. We're creating a space where you can be yourself. There's no judgement.
Read storyWe still tell the past, but we also going to tell the future now. Our most important thing is our kids and their kids being connected. To protect this place.
Read storyIt's been a long process thinking about the ownership of this land, but it's just good to be coming home. I grew up between here and Ross River as a kid, and it's good to be back home.
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