Abstract
On 4 June 2010, the New South Wales (NSW) Minister for Juvenile Justice the Hon Graham West announced his resignation from his ministerial post and indicated that he would leave Parliament at the next election. It was reported that his resignation was prompted not only by a desire to spend more time with his family, but also so that he could work 'more collaboratively in the welfare field' (Robins 2010) and 'speak a bit more freely' (Hall, Nichols and Robins 2010). The Sydney Morning Herald reported that there were two decisions in particular that had prompted his resignation: the first was a failure to notify him of the reversal of a decision, which he had previously publicly announced, to establish a program of 'bail houses' for young people (see Department of Juvenile Justice 2010); and the second was the failure of the Government to respond more positively to a major review of juvenile justice in NSW, undertaken by independent consultancy firm Noetic Solutions and released in May 2010 (the Noetic Report: Noetic Solutions 2010).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 171-180 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Curent Issues in Criminal Justice |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- New South Wales
- juvenile justice
- politics and government