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29 Jul
Public housing failures in meeting the needs of tenants with disability
NSW Ombudsman Paul Miller has called for significant improvements to be made to the delivery of public housing disability modifications. His report to Parliament tells the story of 3 public housing te…
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13 May
Insufficient action to implement strip search safeguards for children and young people in detention
A report of the NSW Ombudsman, Paul Miller, has been tabled in Parliament today (Strip searches in youth detention: a follow-up report under section 27 of the Ombudsman Act 1974) calling on the Govern…
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4 May
The Ombudsman’s jurisdiction to investigate when there are related court proceedings
The report relates to a provision of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Amendment (Family is Culture) Bill 2022, which proposes an amendment to the Ombudsman Act. The amendment conce…
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