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• Bills Digest: Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders) Bill 1999 (Cth) [Search]
  Bill introduced by Sen. Bob Brown to override the mandatory sentencing laws in WA and NT. Led to Senate Inquiry into mandatory sentencing and national and international attention being focussed upon the issue (on Parliament of Australia website)
• Chapter 4: Laws Mandating Minimum Terms of Imprisonment and Indigenous People (Social Justice Report 2001) [Search]
  This is the report of research inquiry conducted into the agreement between the NT Govt and the Cth regarding the Territory’s mandatory sentencing regime; the consistency of mandatory sentencing with Australia’s international human rights obligations; and WA’s mandatory sentencing regime (on HREOC website)
• Inquiry into Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders) Bill 1999 [Search]
  Bill proposed to override the mandatory sentencing laws in WA and NT, making any state or territory law that requires a court to sentence a person to imprisonment for an offence committed as a child unlawful (on Australian Parliament website)
• Inquiry into the Provisions of the Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing for Property Offences) Bill 2000 [Search]
  This bill, which covers both children and adults, is intended to override the mandatory sentencing laws in WA and NT. It provides that Commonwealth, State and Territory laws must not force a court to sentence a person to imprisonment or detention for a property offence (on Parliament of Australia website)
• Mandatory Sentencing Chronology 1901-2002 [Search]
  This timeline provides key dates and documents relating to mandatory sentencing primarily as it relates to Western Australia and the Northern Territory (on Australian Parliamentary Library website)
• Report of the Inquiry into the Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing of Property Offenders) Bill 2000 (Cth) [Search]
  With the intention to repeal the laws, this inquiry examined the WA and NT mandatory sentencing regimes as they applied to adults and juveniles convicted of property offences (on Parliament of Australia)
• Sentencing Act (NT)
  Contains mandatory sentencing provisions for property offenders (on AustLII)