The damage left by these policies was so severe that these children went down in history as The Stolen Generations. Note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this ...
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.
An Aboriginal leader who works to keep children from being taken away from her community into non-Indigenous care wants the ...
Catherine Liddle, chief executive of SNAICC. Photograph by Arsineh Houspian. National peak body for Indigenous children ...
The Bringing Them Home inquiry found as many as one in three Aboriginal children were torn from their families between 1910 and 1970 under government legislation, such as the Aborigines Protection ...
Adam Reilly has told a parliamentary inquiry it was not his decision to leave the Department for Child Protection and has called for changes to the system.
The principle currently requires any Aboriginal child in the child protection system to be placed, if possible, with family or other Indigenous carers, rather than non-Indigenous carers.
The National Children's Commissioner has criticised a Northern Territory government plan that could see more Aboriginal ...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has acknowledged the hard work by First Nations people in Closing the Gap but says there is ...