Yarrabah Justice Reinvestment
Community-led justice reinvestment initiative
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Yarrabah Justice Reinvestment (Gindaja)
Yarrabah, QLD
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Gindaja Treatment and Healing Indigenous Corporation, an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation in Yarrabah QLD, auspices the Yarrabah Justice Service and is one of nine organisations selected in 2024 to deliver a Commonwealth-funded justice reinvestment initiative.
Impact on the record
What the public record shows
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The ledger in plain view
Funding on record (lead organisation)
$8,915,704
Cost of detaining one child for a year
$1,300,000
ROGS 2026 national average
Equivalent child-years of detention
7
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.
- $1,800,000qgip
- $1,694,625qgip
- $727,113qld-historical-grants
- $609,035qgip
- $589,456qld-historical-grants
- $556,715qgip
- $550,000qgip
- $545,000qgip
- $545,000qgip
- $437,643qgip
- $433,117qld-historical-grants
- $428,000qgip
What runs here
Programs and approaches
- Yarrabah Justice Service
- Yarrabah Community Justice Group (YCJG)
The people
Who leads the work
Ailsa Lively
CEO, Gindaja Treatment and Healing Indigenous Corporation (organisation-wide; not specifically the Justice Service coordinator)
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The arc
How this site came to be
2015
The Yarrabah Community Justice Group (operating for roughly 30 years, originally under Yarrabah Council, then auspiced by Gurriny) was transferred to Gindaja as auspice organisation.
Source →2020
In June 2020 the Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General restructured the funding format; Gindaja tendered for and won the contract for the Yarrabah Justice Service, and a new service-delivery model was developed splitting the single coordinator role into a Coordinator role and a grassroots Justice Group Officer role.
Source →2024
On 1 February 2024 the Australian Government announced that, following an independent assessment, nine organisations were selected to deliver justice reinvestment initiatives, including Gindaja Treatment and Healing Indigenous Corporation (Yarrabah, QLD), under a $79 million commitment to support up to 30 community-led initiatives (part of a $109 million First Nations justice package).
Source →2025
Throughout 2025 the interim National Justice Reinvestment Unit engaged with Commonwealth-funded initiatives (including Gindaja) on the design of the National Justice Reinvestment Unit, holding four roundtables in Perth, Adelaide, Darwin and Cairns across July and August 2025; the first evaluation applying the national justice reinvestment framework is anticipated to begin later in 2026.
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In the record
News and reports
- Landmark investment in First Nations justice reinvestment programs
Ministers' media centre (Australian Government) · 2024-02-01
- Landmark Investment Boosts First Nations Justice Programs
Mirage News · 2024-02-01
- Gindaja: A 40-year history
QAIHC Sector Leader · 2023-12-10
- Yarrabah Community Safety Plan Review 2025 — Endorsed
Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council · 2025
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