Built in 1821 to house and provide productive employment for the New South Wales colony’s growing population of female convicts, the Parramatta Female Factory was also the site of countless horrors.
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Children as young as ten don’t have access to Medicare if detained. And they’re dying of largely preventable diseases.
The success of the Ugandan dance troupe offers a chance to discuss the harms of institutional care.
In 2023, International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks 90 years since the Nazis assumed power. Disabled people were the first Holocaust victims; Nazi programs discriminated against and murdered them.
The real Pennhurst – a hospital name-checked in the latest series of Stranger Things – was a place of segregation and abuse.
Kenya announced plans in 2017 for a long-term action plan to end the institutionalisation of children.
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Professor of Adolescent Health The University of Melbourne; Director, Royal Children's Hospital Centre for Adolescent Health; and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Disability and Inclusion, Deakin University
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Professor, Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape and Professor of Children's Rights in the Developing World, University of Leiden, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer in Social Work, The Open University
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Professor of Indigenous Genomics, Australian National University
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Principal Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Head, Justice Health Group, Curtin University
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Suicide Prevention Australia Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UniSA Creative, Adelaide University