[by Meg Perkins]

Speaker Billy Walker  CEO Yaegi Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation Registered Native Body Corporation Indigenous leader. Image supplied

First Nations children are being incarcerated at ever-increasing rates.

Recent tragedies in Western Australia make youth justice reform ever more urgent, but politicians in Queensland and New South Wales seem determined to “get tough on crime”.

World experts from Canada have been invited to speak at the Youth Justice 24: Prevention not Detention conference 12 and 13 September 2024 in the Northern Rivers New South Wales.

Bill Walker, CEO of the Yaegl Traditional Owners Corporation, will be talking about the importance of culture and Jocelyn Spencer Jones, a Nyoongar researcher, will be discussing the child protection pathway to juvenile justice.

More details at the conference website preventionnotdetention.com 

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