The head of the government watchdog for the NDIS swore and said she might have to resign after she discovered she had made a mistake in telling Four Corners the regulator had shut down a program where children with disabilities were abused, court documents allege.
We’ve actually got an even bigger private prison issue than the US by proportion.
Nearly 40 per cent of Victoria’s prisoner population is housed in three privately managed prisons – Port Philip Prison, Ravenhall Correctional Centre and Fulham Correctional Centre. As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world.
The lobby doesn’t have quite the same financial clout just on population size but it’s a significant factor in Australia’s modern handling of the issue.
'I may have to resign': Court documents allege NDIS commissioner mistakenly misled Four Corners over autism program (www.abc.net.au)
The head of the government watchdog for the NDIS swore and said she might have to resign after she discovered she had made a mistake in telling Four Corners the regulator had shut down a program where children with disabilities were abused, court documents allege.
Since colonial times Australia has been an incarceration nation where lock ’em up is preferred to rehabilitation – Julianne Schultz (www.theguardian.com)
The fearful reaction to the high court decision that people cannot be held in indefinite detention is a classic example