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The Stick Up Interview with Debbie Kilroy – Abolish Prisons and Stop the Abuse
Debbie Kilroy was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 1989 for trafficking drugs. She witnessed her friend get murdered inside and was stabbed herself during the incident. While in prison she lost almost everything, but after extensive studies and her release on parole,...
Removing children from their families for being poor is a national disgrace
Human rights campaigner and lawyer Debbie Kilroy is urging governments to put an end to the family policing system which sees Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children being forcibly removed from their families because of racism and poverty. ‘Currently the State...
Queensland jail failure to give children access to anger programs just the tip of the iceberg
Justice advocacy organisation Sisters Inside has called for a whole of government inquiry into the systemic failure to support children locked up in Queensland’s prisons. Sisters Inside CEO and human rights lawyer Debbie Kilroy said revelations that an Aboriginal...
Enough is enough – Sisters Inside calls for moratorium on ‘youth justice reform’
Sisters Inside is calling for a moratorium on the development of all youth detention facilities nationwide and a national debate on the future of existing centres. As part of its End Toxic Prisons – Blow up the Pipeline campaign, Sisters Inside is expanding the scope...
Social workers ‘are the problem’ contributing to mass incarceration of women and children nationwide, leading justice campaigner says.
Leading human rights campaigner Debbie Kilroy has slammed Australia’s social work system saying it is complicit in caging, criminalising and containing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children. Speaking at the La Trobe University Leadership in Social...
Make It Happen Campaign
Ten families helped but still 90 to go. Sisters Inside launches nationwide Make It Happen campaign to raise $50,000 for women and children this Christmas. Christmas is around the corner and Sisters Inside has the perfect gift idea. But time is running out. With ten...
Make It Happen Campaign
Sisters Inside launches Make It Happen campaign to raise $50,000 for women and children this Christmas. Christmas is around the corner and Sisters Inside has the perfect gift idea. The justice advocacy organisation, based in Brisbane, hopes community will join them...
Police System ‘Stinks’
Leading human rights activist Debbie Kilroy has called on the State Government to dismantle the Queensland Police Service ahead of the release of the report into police responses to domestic and family violence, describing it as like ‘a rotting carcass’. ‘It’s been...
Watch house comments prove Queensland justice system rotten to the core
Leading human rights campaigner, Debbie Kilroy, has accused Queensland police of covering up a widespread culture of “white supremacy” following recordings leaked from the Brisbane watchhouse this week. The comments made by officers and watchhouse staff were further...
QUEENSLAND CRACKDOWN ON YOUTH CRIME DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD
Leading human rights campaigner Debbie Kilroy has called on the international community to weigh in on Queensland’s backward policy response to “youth crime’ amid fears new plans will put more children in harm’s way. Her comments follow measures announced by the State...
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