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Victoria under pressure to raise criminal age as Aboriginal youth justice strategy unveiled
Scattered throughout the strategy to drive down the number of Aboriginal children in Victoria's youth justice system are fragments of pain.
“I wanted to be with family … when I first got there I knew I had to get out of there.”
- Joseph Dunstan
- ABC
“Before the system, I was under DHS, in resi care. I was meant to be there for a weekend and ended up being there for seven months.”
“Racism. That’s the elephant in the room. It’s still there.”
These experiences of Aboriginal communities have fed into the Wirkara Kulpa strategy, released by the Victorian government on Thursday.
Developed with the…