Media Statements and Interviews
Lawyers warn of COVID jail ‘crisis’ (NT News) 4 February 2022
A Matter of Public Safety (NT News) 5 September 2021
“The worst kind of mandatory sentencing” (ABC Radio National) 28 July 2021
‘Eulogy’ for Youth Justice (NT News) 7 May 2021
No bail in NT for Indigenous youth (The Wire) 20 April 2021
Darwin Correctional Centre ceiling fans removed from cells after two prisoner deaths (ABC) 17 March 2021
New domestic violence laws may criminalise coercive control in the Northern Territory (ABC) 12 February 2021
The Time for Change is Now (NT News) 9 December 2020
Fresh Hope for Criminal Justice (NT News) 9 November 2020
‘Censorship at its worst’: Barrister’s criticism of the NT legal system rebuked (NT Independent) 2 November 2020
Crime in Alice Springs will be a key issue in the NT election. How do parties plan to tackle it? (ABC) 18 August 2020
NT Labor fails to implement mandatory sentencing reform (ABC PM) 16 June 2020
Call for ‘urgent’ COVID-19 law reform system (NT News) 6 April 2020
No quick fix for curse of kid crime (Sunday Territorian) 8 March 2020
NT Chief Judge Elizabeth Morris finalises investigation into complaint against judge Greg Borchers (ABC) 11 December 2019
Communities ‘neglected or ignored for decades’ as justice unit tackles Indigenous incarceration (ABC) 25 July 2019
Lawyers lodge complaint about NT judge after ‘Indigenous child abandoning’ comments (Guardian Australia) 25 July 2019
‘System is broken’: all children in NT detention are Aboriginal, officials say (Guardian Australia) 31 May 2019
Scare campaign will make innocent people victims (NT News) 20 May 2019
NT to pass new youth justice laws that contradict Don Dale findings (Guardian Australia) 21 March 2019
Mentally ill and disabled people held in Territory prisons for years without a sentence (ABC) 10 February 2019
Inmates Bake in Record Temps (NT News) 25 January 2019
Northern Territory Police face race issues with new officer training for ‘unconscious bias’ (ABC) 29 November 2018
Don Dale detainees in watch house with no timeframe in place (ABC PM) 8 November 2018
The NT’s youth justice system is back in the spotlight (ABC 18 July 2018)
Northern Territory Police conceal ‘use-of-force’ rules from public (ABC 3 July 2018)
NT man wrongly accused of rape of a two year old girl demands police apology (ABC 21 June 2018)
Assistant Minister says NT Government may move to decriminalise drugs (ABC The World Today) 18 April 2018
Rate of Indigenous incarceration now highest in the world (ABC PM) 28 March 2018
NT’s mandatory sentencing laws blamed for disparity between number of indigenous people locked up compared with rest of Australia (NT News) March 2018
NT Police interviewing suspects with disability without guardians present, say legal advocates (ABC) 13 February 2018
NT Criminal Lawyers Association calls for greater judicial oversight (ABC) 25 January 2018
NT justice advocate bestowed human rights award (Lawyers Weekly) 5 January 2018
Victoria should look to NT for youth crime management: NT Chief Minster (ABC PM) 3 January 2018
Northern Territory Police could face negligence, battery claims after pepper spraying, lawyer says (ABC) 19 December 2017
Northern Territory justice criticises five-month wait for mental health assessment report (ABC) 15 December 2017
On youth prisons: grandmothers, reformers, revolutionaries (Alice Springs News) 6 October 2017
Hopes resting on royal commission to recommend raising age of criminal responsibility (ABC) 25 September 2017
Mandatory sentencing ‘albatross’ (The Weekend Australian) 26 August 2017
Zak Grieve: Indigenous people under-represented on juries, lack faith in legal system, lawyer says (ABC) 25 August 2017
Separate NT women’s prisons needed to address ‘appalling’ conditions (ABC PM) 10 March 2017
NT Royal Commission told government vitriol created environment for abuse (ABC PM) 14 December 2016
NSW may increase pressure on killers to reveal location of bodies (ABC The World Today) 17 October 2016
Royal Commssion into Youth Detention (ABC Lateline) 12 October 2016
The right to drink? Wrong (drinktank) 13 September 2016
Territory Youth: CLANT Welcomes a Royal Commission 27 July 2016
NT Govt seeks stricter bail rules for repeat property offenders 24 May 2016
NT murder sentencing laws the most severe in Australia 18 January 2016
Daniel’s Law: Concerns raised over impact proposed NT public sex offender registry will have for victims (ABC) 24 November 2015
Ten reasons the NT’s “Daniel’s Law” will be bad for sexual assault victims (The Northern Myth) 12 November 2015
The Paperless Arrest Mess (The Centralian Advocate) 4 September 2015
Overseas Conferences: To go or not to go? [2015] (Autumn) Bar News 5
Cyclone John: Police Commissioner’s trail of destruction 9 March 2015
Full-blown independent inquiry into former police commissioner John McRoberts needed to satisfy public 31 January 2015
Adam Giles should order fully independent probe into John McRoberts 21 January 2015
New ‘paperless arrest’ laws in NT under attack 27 November 2014
NT Government seeks to make bail harder for domestic violence offenders 23 November 2014
Northern Territory to launch online public sex offender register named after Daniel Morcombe 15 October 2014
Juries in Alice Springs 7 October 2014
Justice or just us? Lack of Aboriginal jurors sparks concerns 2 May 2014
NT’s new prison expected to open at capacity 31 January 2014
One punch legislation is “political” says NT criminal lawyer 22 January 2014
Tribunal faces challenge from woman ordered into compulsory alcohol rehabilitation 10 January 2014
NT gets its first taste of new grog laws 29 July 2013
Grog rehab ‘candidates’ kept in dark on rights 16 July 2013
Draft grog rehab laws take turn to lighter brew 14 June 2013
Address to Grog Crisis Rally, Alice Springs 13 May 2013
Claims NT sex offender laws are flawed 27 March 2013
Mandatory sentencing regime draws more flak 15 February 2013
Forensic delays delays blamed for tardy justice 18 January 2013
Grog policy going backwards 1 January 2013
Mandatory Sentencing Causes Gross Injustice 15 November 2012
Briscoe Inquest October 2012
Indefinite Detention for Sex Offenders September 2012
One Punch Homicide August 2012
Recriminalising Drunkenness August 2012
Derailing the Criminal Lawyers’ Gravy Train August 2012
Mandatory Sentencing July 2012
Murder Sentencing Laws July 2012
Media Reporting on Criminal Matters June 2012
Alternatives to Imprisonment for Mentally Impaired June 2012
Prisons Overcrowding April 2012
Police Response to Deaths in Custody April 2012
Alcohol Supply Measures November 2011
White Ribbon Day November 2011