Perth, WA
Social Reinvestment WA is an Aboriginal-led, state-wide coalition of not-for-profits, experts and lived-experience people working since 2014 to end the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Western Australia's justice system.
Impact on the record
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$1.5 million
Federal funding to Olabud Doogethu (Halls Creek) JR project
“The project received $1.5 million towards the Halls Creek-based Aboriginal-led justice reinvestment project, Olabud Doogethu.”
View the source →15,231 signatures
Raise the Age petition signatures
“The petition was signed by some 15,231 West Australians who support the calls of the growing chorus of experts to stop jailing children.”
View the source →74 organisations
Organisations endorsing the raise-the-age report
“74 Western Australian organisations endorsed the call to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility... Report Title: "A Pathway to a Brighter Future for Western Australia's most at risk children"”
View the source →WA's first Aboriginal community-led, place-based justice reinvestment site
Olabud Doogethu (Halls Creek) JR site support
“Supported "Halls Creek" as "the state's first Aboriginal community led, place based, justice reinvestment site"; Secured "a significant election funding commitment to the Olabud Doogethu work"”
View the source →Over 10,000 listens
Stories from the Inside podcast listens
“Over 10k listens”
View the source →The ledger in plain view
Funding on record (lead organisation)
$3,540,000
Cost of detaining one child for a year
$1,300,000
ROGS 2026 national average
Equivalent child-years of detention
3
This is funding recorded against the lead organisation, not the site-specific federal allocation, which governments publish only as national envelopes. The comparison sets what a community receives against the price of a single cell, so the question moves from whether to fund the community to why we still fund the cell.
What runs here
Social Reinvestment WA
State-wide coalition of around 30 non-government organisations advocating for justice reinvestment and smarter justice approaches across Western Australia. Advocacy and state-level body rather than a single funded site.
The people
The arc
2014
Social Reinvestment WA established after children at Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre were sent to and held in Hakea adult prison following a 'riot'; founding working group of Aboriginal and non-profit leaders formed to create a unified sector voice.
Source →2021
Released 'A Pathway to a Brighter Future for Western Australia's most at risk children' report, endorsed by 74 WA organisations, calling to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14.
Source →2023
Raise the Age WA petition signed by 15,231 West Australians submitted to the WA Government.
Source →2023
Commonwealth justice reinvestment funding ($1.5m) delivered to the Olabud Doogethu project in Halls Creek, the WA JR site SRWA has supported as the state's first.
Source →In the record
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights · 2021-05-03
National Indigenous Times · 2023-11-01
Attorney-General's media centre (Australian Government) · 2023-06-15
Noongar Radio
The network
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