Even Labor MPs are at a loss over the Victorian premier’s ‘tough love’ plan for youth offenders

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• The Guardian
  Even Labor MPs are at a loss over the Victorian premier’s ‘tough love’ plan for youth offenders

  <p>Parliamentarians across factional lines share concerns about policy that legal expert says ‘paints the imprisonment of children as therapeutic’</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily political email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Until December last year, Meena Singh was Victoria’s commissioner for Aboriginal children and young people, a role in which she advocated for some of the state’s most vulnerable children.</p><p>She had held the role since 2022. In all that time, she says, nobody from the Victorian government had approached her with a proposal like the one the Victorian premier, Ben Carroll, announced last week: a $204m “tough love” plan to send children who commit low- and mid-level offences to secure facilities, including the former Malmsbury youth justice centre, for schooling, drug and alcohol treatment and to learn life skills.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/15/victoria-premier-ben-caroll-youth-crime-offenders-plan-ntwnfb">C

  Sat, 14 Nov 2026 19:00:53 GMT

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1. 2026-11-14 19:00The Guardian — Even Labor MPs are at a loss over the Victorian premier’s ‘tough love’ plan for youth offenders