September 18, 2026
‘Youth crime is falling across the board’ – Senate committee calls for national taskforce and minimum standards in youth justice
A cross-party Senate committee has today found no evidence of a youth crime crisis that has been used to justify a decade of harsher laws, while calling for national minimum standards and a national taskforce to prevent the ongoing harm to children in detention.
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Family violence reforms deliver progress and new risks for victim-survivors
The Victorian Government's latest family violence reforms include some important and long-overdue changes, but several measures risk making things harder for victim-survivors.
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September 09, 2026
Time for Victoria to finally end the criminalisation of begging
The community legal sector strongly supports moves to decriminalise begging, bringing Victoria into line with all other states and territories - including New South Wales, which removed the offence from their criminal law in 1979.
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August 26, 2026
Victorian Government moves to hand extraordinary unsupervised powers to police
Victoria’s community legal sector is deeply concerned with new police powers proposed by the Victorian Government.
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August 21, 2026
Community legal centres come together with the Attorney-General at roundtable event focussed on supporting children and young people who are experiencing family violence
On Thursday 20 August, representatives from Victorian community legal centres joined a roundtable event with the Victorian Attorney-General, the Hon Sonya Kilkenny, hosted by Eastern Community Legal Centre at Box Hill Town Hall.
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