Youth justice system gets major overhaul after Frank Baxter riots - ABC News 29/10/2019

A major overhaul of all New South Wales juvenile correction facilities is underway, with an independent review into a riot at a Central Coast facility exposing systemic failures and consistent violence. The general secretary of the Public Services Association, Stewart Little, said they had been calling on the Government to implement these changes for years. "We were talking to the Government about this three years…

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Major Review of Youth Justice NSW - ABC News 30/10/2019

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Mandatory blood testing for people who attack emergency service workers - 7 News 06/11/2019

People who bite emergency or other frontline workers in NSW will soon be forced to undergo blood testing. The new law aims to ease the agonising wait faced by some first responders left wondering if they've been infected with hepatitis or HIV. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1194577590745612 More: 7news.link/zFSb7P

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Mandatory Blood Tests - Daily Telegraph 06/11/2019

New laws will be introduced forcing anyone who bites, scratches or spits on frontline workers to undergo a mandatory blood test, enabling them to immediately learn if they have been exposed to a bloodborne virus. The Berejiklian government will introduce the legislation in February in a move to lessen anxiety for affected workers who currently have to wait up to six months to be cleared…

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Offenders who bite frontline emergency workers to be subject to immediate blood tests - 9 News 06/11/2019

People who bite, spit or expose police and other frontline emergency workers to the risk of contracting a disease will be forced to undergo a blood test as part of tough new laws. The new scheme will give New South Wales authorities powers to test a person for communicable diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C almost immediately. Previously, emergency workers exposed to…

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