New Zealand Study Tour 2025

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Words from Placement Students

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Justice and Healing: Restorative and Community Responses to Harm

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When Disability Is Criminalised: Why Lived Experience Must Shape Justice Reform

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Join the CIJ for Victorian Law Week 2025: Two events exploring justice, connection and community 

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Bail Saves Lives – Poccum’s Law is the Way Forward

Nearly a hundred organisations, including the CIJ, have signed onto an open letter drafted by the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service condemning the Government's proposed changes to bail laws.

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International Women’s Day 2025: #AccelerateAction – Beyond Recognition to Real Change on Gendered Violence

International Women's Day (IWD) has, to an extent, become a corporate formality—a morning tea or panel discussion that can feel disconnected from the reality that many women face in Australia amongst growing rates of gendered violence and discrimination. 

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CIJ Welcomes ALRC Report’s Recommendations for Reform for Greater Safety, Information and Support for Sexual Violence Survivors

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CIJ Insights vol.3 Marking the Close of an Extraordinary Chapter: A Conversation with Mina Hilson 

For more than a decade, if you walked into the Centre for Innovative Justice (CIJ), you would likely be met with Mina Hilson’s warm presence, a sharp mind in action, and a passionate commitment to the Centre’s work.

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Sentencing Advisory Council Recommends Major Changes to Sentencing of Workplace Safety Offences

The Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council has today released a landmark report recommending major reforms to how workplace safety offences are sentenced in Victoria.

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Two new animations from Open Circle and TAC explain the benefits of restorative justice

When recovering from road trauma, many people find that medical care alone isn't enough.

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CIJ Insights vol.2- Shining a Light on Prison Labour: Lessons from the LA Wildfires

The recent wildfires in Los Angeles have been a natural disaster of immense scale.

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CIJ Insights vol.1: Navigating a Year Marked With Uncertainty

Welcome to CIJ Insights, a new series where members of the CIJ team share their thoughts, feelings, ideas, and advice on topics relevant to the justice sector and those who work in it. Our first instalment comes from none other than Associate Director Elena Campbell.

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Open Circle’s Renee Handsacker Speaks to The Guardian on Restorative Justice for Sexual Assault

“The criminal justice system can require certain things of [alleged offenders], but it also requires them to kind of position themselves pretty fiercely as, ‘no, this didn’t happen,’” she says. “To me, that’s a kind of a soft option, as opposed to actually requiring someone to deeply engage in the harm that they’ve caused.” - Renee Handsaker as quoted by The Guardian. 

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Creating more self-determining justice models for Victoria’s Aboriginal and First Nations communities

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Renee Handsaker from Open Circle speaks to ABC News – The Law Report on restorative justice and sexual assault

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Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission Inquiry into Justice Responses to Sexual Violence # 2

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Smart Justice 4 Young People:

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Innovative Justice in Aotearoa  

A dynamic group of students from RMIT's Juris Doctor (JD) program have just returned from a week of witnessing innovative justice in Aotearoa (New Zealand).

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Spotlight on Yvette Clarke

Yvette Clarke joins the CIJ as Manager of Policy and Reform.We caught up with her to learn more about her interests and what she's looking forward to in her role at the CIJ.

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Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission: Justice Responses to Sexual Violence

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