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Western Australia’s Indefensible Record on Children’s Rights
In the space of four weeks in November 2024, there were at least 63 recorded cases of children in Western Australia’s youth ...
Northern Territory government pushes for child protection amendments
The National Children's Commissioner has criticised a Northern Territory government plan that could see more Aboriginal ...
Northern Territory Govt commits to proposal that could lead to more Aboriginal children being placed with non-Indigenous carers
The Northern Territory’s Chief Minister says her government is committed to changes to the Child Protection Act that could see more Aboriginal children placed with non-Indigenous carers.
Finocchiaro lukewarm on Dutton’s promised royal commission into Indigenous child sex abuse
The Chief Minister has offered tepid support to her federal counterpart’s push for a royal commission into child sexual abuse ...
South Australia's Child Protection Department accused of racism against First Nations staff
The former deputy leader of South Australia's Child Protection Department, believed to be the first Aboriginal person ...
GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Rising child incarceration in Australia
New data reveals 27 Indigenous children in Australia attempted self-harm in prison last financial year, the National ...
Closing the Gap success stories are being written by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: PM
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has acknowledged the hard work by First Nations people in Closing the Gap but says there is ...
Dutton’s Plan For A Royal Commission Into Child Sex Abuse In Remote Communities Slammed
The leading body for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander children has slammed Peter Dutton ‘s election promise to hold a royal commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities, calling ...
Former child protection chief claims he was made to feel like a ‘sellout’ after apologising to First Nations families
Adam Reilly has told a parliamentary inquiry it was not his decision to leave the Department for Child Protection and has ...
Australia spends a billion dollars a year on locking up children - with no evidence it makes society safer
Data from the Productivity Commission shows First Nations kids as young as 10 are much more likely than other children to be ...
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A Brief History of Aboriginal Australia: The World’s Oldest Culture
which gave the authorities permission and indiscriminate authority to remove any Aboriginal child of mixed descent from their families. Today they are known as Australia’s Stolen Generations.
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Children’s Commissioners urge NT government to scrap planned changes to Aboriginal child placement principles
Australia’s national Children’s Commissioners ... to remove children from their homes without adherence to the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle. The principle currently requires any ...