Justice Reform Initiative
The Justice Reform Initiative is an alliance of people from across the political spectrum who share long-standing professional experience or knowledge of the justice system and and believe that there is an urgent need for Australia to turn away from the American model of building more and more prisons and youth detention centres. Instead the Justice Reform initiative believes that we need to convince Governments to invest in evidence based alternatives for many people and including children, which address the underlying issues and social determinants, make our communities safer and turn lives around. The current system fails to do that and is costing Australia $8 Billion a year.
We have banded together to present the strong evidence-based case for reform to governments, recognising that this crucial reform has been far too slow in Australia – with a very real toll on people and communities.
Robert Tickner currently serves as the Chair of the Justice Reform Initiative Board.
Read the front-page feature on the Justice Reform Initiative that appeared in The Australian on 7 September 2020…more
Listen as Patricia Karvelas interviews Robert on Radio National on Radio National’s Drive program…more
Read Robert’s article in the Sydney Morning Herald from 15 April 2021, 30 years after tabling the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, on why he is furious…more
EveryAGE counts
EveryAGE Counts is an advocacy campaign aimed at tackling ageism involving stereotyping, discriminantion and mistreatment of older Australians. It will affect all of us at some point in our lives unless we successfully change things for the better.
It has the potential to impact on the confidence, quality of life, job prospects, health, and control over life decisions of all people as they age. As well as its individual impacts, ageism can also deny society the enormous range of benefits that can flow, economically and socially, from the full participation of all people as they age. A very stark example of this is the reported high levels of age discrimination in the workplace which reveal that close to 50% of employera have policies not to recruit people over the age of 50 years.
Robert Tickner was a foundation Co-Chair and Chair of the EveryAGE Counts Board and deeply committed to the principles of intergenerational solidarity.
Watch the Human Rights Webinar ‘The missing link: Australian leadership and support for a UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons.'
EveryAGE Counts Co-chair Marlene Krasovitski facilitated a lively and engaging discussion with keynote speakers and panellists on how we can galvanise and mobilise Australian Government leadership domestically and on the global stage in the creation of a UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons.
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations in more than one hundred countries promoting adherence to and implementation of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This landmark global agreement was adopted in New York on 7 July 2017.
Since its foundation ICAN has worked to build a powerful global groundswell of public support for the abolition of nuclear weapons. By engaging a diverse range of groups and working alongside the Red Cross and like-minded governments, ICAN has helped reshape the debate on nuclear weapons and generate momentum towards elimination.
Read Robert’s 2013 call for a convention to eliminate nuclear weapons.
Watch the speech given by Robert Tickner in his capacity as an ICAN Ambassador at the Inaugural Blue Mountains Peace Symposium held at the Planetary Health Centre in Katoomba on 2nd August 2025.
The speech mounts the case for Australia to sign the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty as an important boost to the international campaign to outlaw nuclear weapons an an illegal weapon of war which target the worlds civilian populations and threaten devastation of our planet in the event of a nuclear war.