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Keira Jenkins

Incarceration crisis: youth laws to face UN scrutiny

The UN delivered a scathing assessment of Australia's prison and detention practices in 2023. (Neda Vanovac/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia could be taken to task internationally for its "crisis of mass incarceration" of Indigenous children as one state tries to take its controversial youth crime crackdown even further.

Indigenous legal experts have filed a complaint with the United Nations, pointing to what they say is systemic racial discrimination in criminal laws nationwide.

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