Opinion: Australia must raise the age of responsibility to 14 or keep trapping children in a quicksand of criminality

Op ed by PIAC Senior Solicitor Emma Bastable, and Luke McNamara from UNSW Centre for Crime, Law & Justice.

The Guardian, 21 November 2021
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