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Mandatory Sentencing Resources

2020 - 9 August: Mandatory sentencing (Creative Spirits)

2019 - 8 March: Supreme Court finds mandatory sentencing laws should not have applied to 12 year old Aboriginal boy (Human Rights Law Centre)

2017 - 19 July: Mandatory Sentencing (Australian Law Reform Commission)

2015 - 02 November: Mandatory Sentencing & the Independence of the Judiciary (Rule of Law)

2014 - May: Making Justice Work - Factsheet: Mandatory Sentencing (North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency)

2013 - November: Easy Scapegoats and Simplistic Reactions: The continuing saga of mandatory sentencing (Neil Morgan, Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia)

2001: Mandatory Sentencing and Human Rights (Chris Cunneen, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Volume 13 Number 3)

2000 - June: Mandatory Gaol Sentences for Minor Property Crime in Australia's Northern Territory (Cultural Survival)

1999 - Punishment Is Blind: Mandatory Sentencing of Children in Western Australia and the Northern Territory (Helen Bayes, UNSW Law Journal)

2019 - 4 November: WA mandatory sentencing regime unfairly targets First Nations youth (Gerry Georgatos, Independent Australia)

2019 - 8 March: Aboriginal boy caught up in mandatory sentencing laws meant for adults wins appeal (WAtoday)

2018 - 29 July: Evils of mandatory sentencing on display (Civil Liberties Australia)

2016 - 5 January: Mandatory sentencing leads to unjust, unfair outcomes – it doesn’t make us safe (The Conversation)

2001 - 24 October: Mandatory sentencing: is it time to celebrate? (GreenLeft)

2000 - 2 August: Howard and Burke strike rotten deal — again (GreenLeft)

2000 - 8 March: End legalised racism (GreenLeft)

2000 - 1 March: Abolish mandatory sentencing (GreenLeft)

2000 - 23 February: Pressure mounts to abolish mandatory sentencing (GreenLeft)

2000 - 16 February: Death caused by mandatory sentencing (GreenLeft)

2015 - December: Review of the Northern Territory Sentencing Amendment (Mandatory Minimum Sentences) Act 2013 (Department of the Attorney-General and Justice)

2014 - May: Policy Discussion Paper on Mandatory Sentencing (Law Council of Australia) - May 2014

2002 - 17 July: Social Justice Report 2001: Chapter 4: Laws mandating minimum terms of imprisonment (‘mandatory sentencing’) and Indigenous people (Australian Human Rights Commission)

2001 - September: The Mandatory Sentencing Debate (Law Council of Australia)

2000 - 28 October: International Perspectives on Mandatory Sentencing (Sarah Pritchard, symposium ‘Mandatory Sentencing: Rights and Wrongs’)

2000 - 20 July: Mandatory Sentencing laws in the Northern Territory and Western Australia (Australian Human Rights Commission)

1999 - November: Submission to the Inquiry by the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee into the Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders) Bill 1999 (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission)

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