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In June, Just Reinvest NSW in Moree teamed up with Flyabout, Gamilaraay Next Generation and Gwenda Stanley to deliver an On Country camp in support of healing the current and past traumas that are having an impact on Gomeroi people. In this interview JR Youth Lead in Moree, Mekayla Cochrane explains what happened: What was […]

Media Release Monday, 31 October 2022: Today Just Reinvest NSW (JRNSW) said that for the first time in Australia justice reinvestment (JR) will be defined and implemented. A new report by JRNSW, Redefining Reinvestment – An Opportunity for Aboriginal communities and government to co-design justice reinvestment in NSW outlines how Aboriginal communities are reaching out […]

Julie Williams, Community Engagement Lead for JR Mt Druitt (pictured right), participated in The Australia Institute’s Summer Series podcast based on a webinar released in January 2022. Everyone knows that children do best when they are supported, nurtured and loved. But across Australia, children as young as 10 can be arrested by police, charged with […]

Aboriginal people in the town famously visited by the Freedom Ride are taking an innovative approach to their community’s problems Originally published by Inside Story 11 June 2021. Author: Robert Milliken Moree might be booming thanks to cotton and other crops, but many of the benefits haven’t yet reached the local Aboriginal people, the Kamilaroi, […]

30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody A moment to reflect  At this time we navigate the grief and trauma that pervades us as we mourn 30 years since the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. We take time for our brothers, sisters, parents and children whose […]

Originally published by The Guardian, January 22, 2021. Author: Laura Murphy-OatesThe young adult: Isaiah spent his teen years in and out of youth detention. Now he’s using his experience to reach others like him in western Sydney It’s five minutes before kickoff of the Penrith Oztag men’s semifinals in western Sydney, and there’s a problem. Two players […]

On 11 September 2020, the Coalition of Aboriginal Peak Organisations (CAPO) in NSW signed the following statement: CAPO Statement on Justice Reinvestment in NSW We, the Coalition of Aboriginal Peak Organisations (CAPO) in NSW express our strong support forjustice reinvestment as a crucial framework to support the community-led and systemic changeneeded to address the drivers […]

Just Reinvest NSW Youth Ambassadors Isaiah Sines and Terleaha Williams published an opinion editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald on July 28, 2020 . Do you fear us? Why else does a 10-year-old Aboriginal kid need to be caged? The nation’s attorneys-general met on Monday to discuss whether to raise the age of criminal responsibility. They […]

Opinion editorial by Sarah Hopkins, and Daniel Daylight (pictured left at the ‘Mounty Yarns’ Listen to Change community event in March 2023), was originally published in The Guardian 15 June 2020. The current model makes first nations people feel scared, marginalised and angry If you are waiting on the platform at a train station and […]

MEDIA RELEASE 26 APRIL 2019 The Australian Labor Party’s commitment to support justice reinvestment has been welcomed by Just Reinvest NSW, an independent organisation that partnered with the Bourke community to develop Maranguka Justice Reinvestment, the most advanced community-led justice reinvestment initiative in Australia. Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Shadow Assistant Minister for Indigenous Affairs […]