Napranum, QLD
Napranum Aboriginal Shire Council in Napranum, Queensland was selected in September 2024 as one of six new community-led justice reinvestment initiatives funded under the Australian Government's National Justice Reinvestment Program.
Impact on the record
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No evaluated outcomes are on the public record for this site yet. This is expected for an establishment-stage initiative. What we can show today is its programs, the people leading it, and the funding attached to the lead organisation. When the site publishes its own figures, each will appear here with its source.
The ledger in plain view
Funding on record (lead organisation)
$8,322,382
Cost of detaining one child for a year
$1,300,000
ROGS 2026 national average
Equivalent child-years of detention
6
This is funding recorded against the lead organisation, not the site-specific federal allocation, which governments publish only as national envelopes. The comparison sets what a community receives against the price of a single cell, so the question moves from whether to fund the community to why we still fund the cell.
What runs here
Napranum Justice Reinvestment
Justice reinvestment initiative in Napranum (west Cape York), Queensland, led by Napranum Aboriginal Shire Council, funded under the Commonwealth National Justice Reinvestment Program (NJRP). Confirmed on the Attorney-General's Department list of funded justice reinvestment initiatives.
The people
Cr Roy Chevathen
Mayor, Napranum Aboriginal Shire Council (the council that holds the justice reinvestment initiative; not confirmed as the JR program lead)
Source →The arc
2024
Napranum Aboriginal Shire Council (Napranum, QLD) selected as one of six new community-led justice reinvestment initiatives, announced by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy on 30 September 2024, following assessment by an independent panel. Part of the Government's $79 million commitment to support up to 30 community-led initiatives nationally.
Source →In the record
Minister for Indigenous Australians media centre · 2024-09-30
Attorney-General's Department / Our ministers · 2024-09-30
National Indigenous Times · 2024-09-30
The network
About this page
This is a public record built from sources in the open, not yet a profile the community holds. Napranum Aboriginal Shire is the editor of record once it claims this page. When a site claims it, the community decides what the world sees, names its own people, and publishes its own figures. We can stage a page. The community publishes it.