Television: Age of Uncertainty – The Project – Network Ten - Produced by Hamish MacDonald and Sam Clark – Screened over April and May 2012
Over three months, Macdonald and Clark investigated the case of Ali Jasmin, an Indonesian child serving five years in a maximum security adult prison in WA for people smuggling – accepted as an adu
About this winner
- Year: 2012
- Level: Winner
- Award category: Media award
About the 2012 nomination
Over three months, Macdonald and Clark investigated the case of Ali Jasmin, an Indonesian child serving five years in a maximum security adult prison in WA for people smuggling – accepted as an adult on the basis of a wrist X-ray. In a tiny fishing village in Indonesia, they found three forms of evidence which the Australian legal system had received and comprehensively failed to recognize - documenting he was, at most, 14 when convicted. Additional investigation uncovered the scale of Australian miscarriages of justice about Indonesian children convicted as people smugglers, discredited wrist x-rays and ultimately contributed to major policy change.
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