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Birth happens days before Labor and Coalition block bill to ban ‘barbaric practice’ of shackling incarcerated women during childbirthGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastAn incarcerated Indigenous woman was shackled to a hospital …

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October 14, 2026 Krishani Dhanji and Tory Shepherd

Labor and Coalition block bill that would ban incarcerated women being shackled in childbirth

Liberal Paul Scarr breaks ranks to condemn major parties, saying he will write to Queensland attorney generalFollow our Australian politics live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastLabor and the Coalition h…

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October 13, 2026 Australian Associated Press

Rachel Smith will turn 39 in prison. The high court says she could freeze her eggs from behind bars

Australia’s highest court says Queensland drug trafficker extracting and storing eggs is not ‘assisted reproductive technology’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 36-year-old woman has won an appeal in Australia’s highest court…

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September 28, 2026 Penry Buckley

Extra 1,000 prison beds announced in NSW as union warns against arresting ‘our way out of domestic violence’

Minns government to spend $47.1m to recommission part of Silverwater jail while PSA says prison alone will not end violent behaviourFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe reo…

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September 24, 2026 Benita Kolovos and Bertin Huynh

Boy, 16, held in ‘cramped’ prison cell alone for 22 hours a day for weeks, Victorian ombudsman finds

Ombudsman finds government breached teen’s human rights, saying the conditions ‘bordered on solitary confinement’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 16-year-old boy was held in conditions akin to solitary confinement in adult p…

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September 24, 2026 Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

Family of Iranian twins sentenced to death and decades in jail ask UN for help

Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were charged with ‘waging war against God’ after joining protests against Tehran regimeThe family of 21-year-old twins who have been sentenced to death and decades in jail for protesting against the Iranian regime have appeale…

Australia news Ben Carroll Labor party Prisons Transport Victoria Victorian politics

August 30, 2026 Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent

Victorian prisoners to be sent out to repair roads under Labor’s pothole plan

Inmates would take over ‘basic’ road maintenance duties, allowing skilled crews to focus on fixing 500,000 potholesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictorian prisoners will…

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August 9, 2026 Christopher Knaus and Ariel Bogle

China expresses ‘grave concern’ as internal documents reveal suicide warning before death in Melbourne immigration detention

Exclusive: Serious questions raised about whether Chinese citizen was properly monitored at centre run by US prison giantGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe US private prison company running Australia’s immigration system was…