Youth Justice Bill 2024
David spoke on the Youth Justice Bill and the concerns of the multiple stakeholders. He raised the need to focus on prevention, services and the needs of groups overrepresented in statistics.
David spoke on the Youth Justice Bill and the concerns of the multiple stakeholders. He raised the need to focus on prevention, services and the needs of groups overrepresented in statistics.
David asks what the government’s plan is when prisons are at capacity, as a result of Victoria’s punitive bail laws.
David asks the Minister for Children about government efforts to reduce the over-criminalisation of young people in residential care.
David Ettershank questioned the attorney general about the Youth Bail reform changes.
David Ettershank used their adjournment speech to call for continued funding support for a successful youth crime prevention project in the west
David asks the Minister for Youth Justice how Victoria can best serve the diverse needs of young people in front of the Victorian Parole Board without comprehensive demographic profiling data.
David opposes bail reforms, urges evidence-based justice reform to reduce youth crime and boost community safety.
David speaks about a new initiative which aims to eradicate youth criminalisation and the overrepresentation in the justice system of First Nations, African, Pasifika children and youth and those living in residential care in Brimbank, Melton and Wyndham.
David questioned the corrections minister about the cost of phone calls in prison, noting that the Yoorrook Justice Commission called for prison phone calls to be free.
David asks a question of the Corrections Minister about a commitment to reduce excessive charges for prisoners to access communications, which disproportionately affects First Nations people.