Holly Doel-Mackaway

Holly Doel-Mackaway is a Senior Lecturer at the Macquarie Law School. Her research focuses on children and the law and interrogates the legal relationship between children and the State under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Before becoming an academic Holly worked as a children’s rights lawyer in the international development sector with a range of organisations including UNICEF, Save the Children, Plan International and Childfund.

Articles by Holly Doel-Mackaway:

Published in Overland Issue Reflections on Ngaga-dji: Listening for Change · Representation

Children’s voices and an Australian Charter of Rights

Holly Doel-Mackaway

The stories shared in the Ngaga-dji Report detail serious breaches of First Nations young people’s human rights and a failure of the Victorian Government and affiliated agencies to uphold them. The stories reveal chronic structural discrimination and ongoing systemic failures to respect, protect and fulfil young First Nations people’s rights in child protection, juvenile justice and out-of-home care settings.