Western Australian Aboriginal leaders have called for an urgent roundtable in the wake of allegations children were left alone in poor conditions in a house in South Hedland, in the state's Pilbara region.
Dr Hannah McGlade said senior First Nations women have been speaking out about child safety but are being ignored by authorities.
"There are Aboriginal grandmothers and senior women in every Aboriginal community who are very worried about violence and children's safety, still they are not being heard and listened to," she said.
"Too often, Aboriginal women are not heard or included in critical decision-making about child safety. We are here, ready to work with the government and share solutions we know will work.
"We are calling on the Cook Labor Government to convene an urgent roundtable of Aboriginal women working in child and family safety to discuss these issues."
Earlier this week Western Australia's Child Protection Minister Jessica Stojkovski flew to the Pilbara after the reports vulnerable Aboriginal children are being left alone, sometimes for days at a time, in a home owned by the WA Department of Housing and Works.
The Australian revealed in a report late last week the children lived in poor conditions in the South Hedland home.
The newspaper reported up to 15 children could be found at the house at times, including the children of the tenants, and that the parents left the house often for days at a time.
The report also said children were sleeping on soiled clothes on the floor, and that the house had been reported to the Department of Child Protection at least nine months ago.
Neighbours told the newspaper there has been little or no response from child services, despite police visits, and they alleged there had seen evidence of drug use in the house.
The report suggested child protection workers knew about the conditions at the home, and reported comments from former Department staff and WA Police officers who said the current staff were not fulfilling their duties.
On Tuesday, Dr McGlade said: "We urge the Premier and Minister Stojkovski to invite Minister Malarndirri and the National Aboriginal Children's Commissioner, Sue-Ann Hunter to Western Australia to participate."
"Most importantly we call on the Government to appoint a WA Aboriginal Children's Commissioner and support a Statewide Peak Body for Aboriginal women and children's safety and wellbeing," she said.
"Aboriginal women and children's lives matter. Too many lives have been lost and destroyed from violence, abuse and indifference."
The Greens (WA) have thrown their support behind the call for an urgent roundtable, noting in a statement that the reported details of the case were "devastating".
Greens spokesperson for Women and Children's Safety, Jess Beckerling, said First Nations women "should be front and centre in the rooms where decisions are being made about First Nations women and children's issues".
"That is why we support the calls today by leading Aboriginal women for the Cook Labor Government to urgently convene a Roundtable on Aboriginal child and family safety," the MP said.
"Currently there is no Aboriginal Children's Commissioner, despite it being recommended in the Gordon Inquiry more than two decades ago. There is also no statewide peak Aboriginal body for women and children's safety and wellbeing. This needs to change."
