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The fight to free Kathleen Folbigg – the woman once dubbed Australia’s worst female serial killer – started in 2013 with the University’s Legal Centre and its law students helping to drive the movement.

On Tuesday 26 September, Newcastle School of Law and Justice convened a HDR roundtable bringing together twelve HDR candidates.

The child protection system is not trauma informed or culturally safe, experts say, and is in desperate need of better regulation, ongoing training, support and supervision of staff, as well as better planning.

More time, money and effort must be made to keep children at home, or in appropriate forms of foster care if they must be removed from their families, with a focus on restoration, says leading Hunter academic, Nicola Ross.

British nurse Lucy Letby was last week sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven infants in her care, and attempting to murder a further six.

Student submissions to the Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework.

Indigenous Business Handbook Launch

Associate Professor Amy Maguire has topped 1 million reads on The Conversation. She has been a prolific contributor since 2014, authoring 77 articles and translating research for public and policy audiences across her areas of expertise.

Australia’s minister for foreign affairs, Penny Wong, has announced Australia will return to use of the term “occupied Palestinian territories”.

This year marks a significant milestone for women in policing: the 125th anniversary of the first official recognition of a police matron in Australia. However, women worked in this role for at least 50 years before receiving official recognition.

On Friday 14 July 2023, the Centre for Law and Social Justice hosted its Algorithmic Justice Symposium at the University of Newcastle Sydney Campus.

Associate Professor Neil Foster was interviewed by ABC Local Radio’s Paul Turton, discussing the benefits and detriments of the common law of torts, and a leading case on “law and religion” issues involving the Jehovah’s Witnesses group during World War II.