"We need help earlier." The tough on youth crime rhetoric is not the answer for the NT, Qld & the rest of the country. The wellbeing of children has to be reformed nationally with legislative change based on evidence & human rights. #auspolwww.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia is failing its children. A ‘tough on crime’ approach to youth justice puts politics before prevention | Anne Hollonds

A child in youth detention told me something that echoed the pleas of many others: ‘We need help way earlier’

If incarceration at such a young age is the best policy we can come up with we need to examine our policy responses and perhaps those who make the policies.. As a caring society we can do better