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Assaults, isolation and deprivation: what life is like at Cairns watch house for children and staff

Exclusive: Rare photo and staff testimonies paint bleak picture of Queensland lockup where situation is said to have reached ‘a tipping point’

The Guardian - AU · Jan 20, 2024

Queensland children in adult watch houses denied bail due to family circumstances

Child protection watchdog finds reasons for opposing bail included intoxicated parents or lack of stable accommodation, with First Nations children particularly over-represented

The Guardian - AU · Dec 12, 2023

Scrap blue cards for First Nations kinship carers, Queensland family and child commissioner says

Damning report finds state’s blue card screening system creates unnecessary barriers to placing children with their families

The Guardian - AU · Nov 2, 2023

Qld blue card fixes first flagged in 2017

Proposed fixes to barriers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within Queensland's blue card system were flagged in a review five years ago.

AAP · Oct 10, 2022

Queensland police will no longer use spit hoods in watch houses, Commissioner Katarina Carroll says

The Queensland Police Service says safety hoods were used on 138 occasions between 2015 and 2022 but the practice has been discontinued.

ABC News · Sep 19, 2022