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Productivity Commission ROGS 2026 — Youth Justice Cost Analysis

Cost comparison: detention vs community supervision

ROGS Youth Justice - Productivity Commission Annual

Annual national benchmarking: $644M nationally, 66% detention vs 30% community. 734 children detained. Indigenous 23x overrepresented.

CASE OF A.R.E. v. GREECE (no. 15783/21)

Whether the applicant's expulsion to Türkiye and the conditions of his detention, together with the absence of an effective remedy, breached his rights under the prohibition of torture, the right to liberty and the right to an effective remedy.

ACT Raises Age of Criminal Responsibility to 14

First Australian jurisdiction to raise minimum age to 14 (July 2025). Evidence from health, neuroscience, and human rights.

Victorian Youth Justice Bill 2024

Raising minimum age to 12 then 14

NT Lowers Age of Criminal Responsibility Back to 10

NT CLP government reversed raise to 12, lowering back to 10. Contradicts Don Dale Royal Commission. Condemned by UN, medical bodies.

Closing the Gap Target 11 Annual Report (2024)

Aboriginal youth incarceration target off track

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children in Out-of-Home Care to Detention Pipeline (2024)

Care to custody pipeline for Aboriginal children

Victorian Youth Justice Act 2024 - Raising the Age

Victoria legislated to raise minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 (2024), then to 14 by 2027. First state with phased raise-the-age approach.

CASE OF VEREIN KLIMASENIORINNEN SCHWEIZ AND OTHERS v. SWITZERLAND (no. 53600/20)

Whether Switzerland's insufficient climate policies breach the applicants' right to private and family life and their right of access to a court.

Commission of Inquiry into Tasmania's Government Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2024)

Decades of abuse at Ashley Youth Detention Centre

Inquest into the Death of Cleveland Dodd (2024)

Death of 16-year-old in Unit 18 Casuarina adult prison

Tasmania Ashley Youth Detention Centre Closure 2024

Federal Closing the Gap Target 11 Review 2024

Youth Justice Conferencing Evaluation (NSW BOCSAR 2023)

Effectiveness of youth justice conferencing vs court

Deadly Connections Diversion Evaluation (2023)

Aboriginal community-controlled diversion in Western Sydney

TAS Commission of Inquiry - Ashley Youth Detention

Investigation into historical child sexual abuse at Ashley Youth Detention Centre. Found decades of abuse. Led to commitment to close the facility.

QLD Youth Justice Amendment Act 2023

ACT Children and Young People (Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility) Amendment Act 2023

Raising minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14

NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2023] HCA 37

Whether indefinite immigration detention of a non-citizen who cannot be removed in the reasonably foreseeable future is within Commonwealth power.