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Ashley Youth Detention Centre
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Estimates Reply – Attorney-General ArcherIt is a deeply concerning allegation that children are going to night courts and appearing before a justice of the peace or a bench justice and a prosecutor. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 2 Dec 2020 |
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Ashley Youth Detention Centre Call for ClosureThe independent Noetic report in 2016 strongly recommended Ashley's closure and replacement with two small therapeutic centres. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 2 Dec 2020 |
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Ashley Youth Detention Centre IssuesWe have heard testimony that there is indeed a culture of abuse and cover-up at Ashley, that the problems are not just historical. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 2 Dec 2020 |
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Estimates Reply – Minister JaenschA significant part of the Estimates with Mr Jaensch this year dealt with that terrible, unsafe place that is Ashley Youth Detention Centre. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 Dec 2020 |
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Attorney-General and Justice – Ashley Youth Detention CentreA disproportionate number of young people are sent to remand at Ashley Youth Detention Centre outside the normal operating hours of the Magistrates Court. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 25 Nov 2020 |
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Housing – Ashley Youth Detention CentreA disproportionate number of young people who are sent to remand at Ashley Youth Detention Centre are ejected into homelessness. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 25 Nov 2020 |
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Human Services - Ashley Youth Detention CentreTwelve months ago, a member of staff at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre found records about the alleged rape in the mid 1990s. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 25 Nov 2020 |
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Premier – Ashley Youth Detention CentreThe Youth Custodial Inspector's report raised serious concerns about people coming on and off the site without working with vulnerable people registration. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 23 Nov 2020 |
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Safety of ChildrenThe investigation that the Government has established into what happened over an 18 year period in the paediatric ward at the LGH is manifestly inadequate. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 19 Nov 2020 |
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Safety of ChildrenThere is something both rotten and wrong with the way at-risk children and young people are dealt with in Tasmania. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 19 Nov 2020 |
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Ashley Youth Detention Centre - Calls for ClosureThe Government ignored the advice in the independent expert Noetic report to close Ashley Youth Detention Centre. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 19 Nov 2020 |
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Ashley Youth Detention Centre - Allegations Against Senior Staff MemberWe have information that a senior staff member at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre has recently been stood down. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 19 Nov 2020 |
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Launceston General Hospital AllegationsWe are just starting to uncover some of the truly heinous things that happened over 18 years that man was on the children's ward at the LGH. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 17 Nov 2020 |
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Commission of Inquiry Must Investigate LGH and Ashley Youth Detention CentreThe Liberals must do right by the children who are, and have been, in government care. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 11 Nov 2020 |
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Ashley Youth Detention Centre - Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse ClaimsThe Government's independent investigation has limited terms of reference and focuses on the systems within the Tasmanian Health Service only. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 11 Nov 2020 |
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Elise Archer Should Know Prison is No Place for a ChildTasmania’s Attorney General, Elise Archer, chaired a meeting of her federal, state and territory counterparts yesterday which again failed Australian children. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 28 Jul 2020 |
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Westbury Residents Sold Out With "Benefits" StudyThe Liberals continue to grubby their northern prison planning process with secrecy and bad faith community consultation. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 11 Jun 2020 |
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Avoiding a COVID-19 Prison Cluster is a PriorityThe Greens commend the decision to suspend all prison visits, but remain concerned about the potential high risk for coronavirus transmission. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 7 Apr 2020 |
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Alternatives to AshleyThe Tasmanian Greens believe that Ashley Youth Detention Centre should be closed and replaced with two purpose-built therapeutic facilities. Cassy O'Connor MP | Policies | 29 Jan 2018 |
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Inspection of Youth Custodial Services RedactionCassy O'Connor speaks on the Adjournment on the Custodial Inspector's comments on the redaction of their report in Ashley Youth Detention Centre. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 30 Oct 2019 |
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Proposal for Prison at WestburyLet us put on the record that we have had this conversation a number of times about the northern prison. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 30 Oct 2019 |
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Youth Justice SystemCassy discusses the Minister's responsibility for a redacted Youth Custodial Services report in the adjournment. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 29 Oct 2019 |
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Ashley Youth Detention Centre Report RedactionsCassy O'Connor questions the Minister for Human Services over redactions in a youth custodial justice report. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 29 Oct 2019 |
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Jaensch Confirms by Omission His Office Requested Ashley RedactionsThe Minister responsible for the Ashley Youth Detention Centre refused to honestly answer a simple, direct question from the Greens. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 29 Oct 2019 |
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Inspection of Youth Custodial Services Report RedactionsThis morning the custody inspection report, Inspection of Youth Custodial Services in Tasmania 2018 was tabled. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 17 Oct 2019 |
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Liberals' Clumsy Attempts to Cover Up Ashley ScandalThe Liberals have attempted, and failed, to redact some of the shameful results of an independent inspection of Ashley Youth Detention Centre. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 17 Oct 2019 |
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Tasmanian Youth Justice Highest Rates of Assault and Self HarmToday’s ROGs chapter on youth justice exposes a harsh approach to youth justice in Tasmania and reinforces the need to close Ashley Youth Detention Centre. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 24 Jan 2017 |
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Call for Government to Adopt Missouri Model for Youth Justice and DetentionThe Ashley Youth Detention Centre represents a manifestly failed model for dealing with juvenile offenders. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 21 Sep 2016 |
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Greens Release Costed Plan to Close AshleyThe evidence is clear that Ashley represents a failed model for youth justice. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 10 Sep 2016 |
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Ashley Review Builds Case for ClosureThe Independent Review of Ashley Youth Detention Centre makes it clear the model for dealing with young offenders in Tasmania has failed. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 1 Sep 2016 |
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Ashley Youth Detention CentreThe Greens recognise that the Minister and her agency have taken this matter very seriously. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 19 Aug 2016 |