00:00There's a lot of questions being asked internationally about why is it that we are incarcerating
00:08so many children, that we're criminalising them from the age of 10 when they have disabilities,
00:16mental health issues, poverty, a range of trauma, you know, these are children with
00:22a lot of serious problems and we're finding that they're in the criminal justice system.
00:28This report, by the way, was done before the recent Queensland Act that was passed
00:33just before Christmas, which goes even further now, making sentences for children the same
00:40as for adults and removing a provision of detention as a last resort and we are the
00:46only country in the world, I'm advised, who has ever done that, removed detention
00:51as a last resort for children.
00:53We can do better as a country, I'm confident of it, but we won't do better by just continuing
01:00with business as usual, presuming that the states and territories will manage child protection
01:05and youth justice when in fact we're seeing that they're failing to do so.
01:13We need to work together across the federation and make child wellbeing a national priority
01:18for national cabinet.
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