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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 […]

MEDIA RELEASE 12 March 2019 Just Reinvest NSW welcomes the Commonwealth and NSW governments’ announcement today that they will provide $1.8 million for Maranguka Justice Reinvestment in Bourke. This is the first justice reinvestment site in Australia to receive support from the Federal Government. The Federal Government has committed $1.5 million over five years and […]

 A landmark report by KPMG estimates that changes in Bourke, the site of Maranguka Justice Reinvestment, resulted in a gross economic impact of $3.1 million in 2017. If just half of the results achieved in 2017 are sustained, Bourke could deliver an additional economic impact of $7 million over the next five years. The report, […]

Artcile originally published in The Guardian – 9 October, 2018 The rates of major crime, domestic violence and drug offences have all dropped in the far western New South Wales town of Bourke, five years on from a groundbreaking, community-led campaign to address the underlying causes of crime. Bourke is one of the most disadvantaged communities in […]

Just Reinvest NSW has developed a Pre-Budget Submission 2018-2019. We are calling on the NSW Government to: A) Adopt a new model of investment in the 2018-2019 Budget to reduce the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prison population: 1. Allocate an additional $60 million over 2 years into early intervention, prevention and diversionary programs delivered by Aboriginal community-controlled […]

This opinion was originally published in The Australian – 16 September, 2016 ‘Our corrections systems are at a crisis point and a smarter ­approach urgently is needed ­nationally,’ writes Dr Tom Calma in The Australian today. ‘The overall prison population and over-representation of Aboriginal people in our prisons are increasing, while recently released statistics show that property and violent […]

Sarah Hopkins Chair of Just Reinvest NSW and Just Reinvest Champion and Weave Youth & Community Services Advocate Keenan Mundine feature in this months Law Society Journal. The feature also talks about the pilots underway in NSW in Bourke and Cowra. “Justice reinvestment offers a rational, long-term solution to curb soaring costs in the NSW criminal justice […]