Monique Hurley

Aug 31, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Maggie Munn |Monique Hurley |Stan Grant |James Bradley

Victoria’s backflip on raising the age of criminal responsibility – and the new NT government’s plans to lower it – fails children, Indigenous communities and the nation No child should ever grow up in a prison cell. Children belong in schools and playgrounds, and need to be supported to learn from their mistakes, not locked in cages.

Aug 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | James Bradley |Katherine Wilson |Monique Hurley |Maggie Munn

An earworm prompted by a push-button appliance drives the author to distraction – and a Google search for how The Village People are getting on

Aug 16, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Monique Hurley

The criminal legal system is supposed to be fair and just. But for years, successive Victorian governments have ratcheted up a dangerous “tough on crime” agenda resulting in a creep of police powers without any real accountability. This has been made clear this week, with the Allan government presenting its political priorities to us in no uncertain terms — it is more interested in protecting police and their interests than protecting children.

Mar 1, 2023 | overland.org.au | Monique Hurley |Jamie McConnachie |Jasmine Barzani |Damiya Hayden

Australia is in the midst of a mass imprisonment crisis, in which governments permit human rights abuses to thrive in the darkness behind prison walls. People continue to be pipelined into prisons at alarming rates when the evidence is clear—prisons reproduce structural inequality and undermine community safety. Unfair laws funnel staggering numbers of unsentenced people into prisons and allow for children as young as ten to be caged in prison cells.