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AbSec calls for action ahead of National Sorry Day, Reconciliation Week: 'Sorry means nothing without systemic change'
Key points:- Ahead of National Sorry Day, AbSec has called for systemic changes...
Jarred Cross 25 May 2026
Investing in families, not removing their children, is the answer
Australia tells itself a comforting story about child protection. We tell oursel...
'We are repeating history' - why the Child Placement Principle must remain
Every time an Aboriginal child dies, the response is the same. Not fund services...
Dr Tracy Westerman 14 May 2026
Child safety or culture war? NT Minister’s remarks spark backlash from legal groups
The Northern Territory's Child Protection Minister is being urged to work more c...
Dechlan Brennan 6 Feb 2026
Exclusive: Calls to reimagine SA youth justice as Children's Guardian condemns isolation and lack of education
A focus on security over rehabilitation still dominates South Australia's youth...
Dechlan Brennan 13 Nov 2025
Child protection falling short on kinship placements for First Nations kids

States and Territories must place greater emphasis on ensuring children entering child protection are placed with relatives or kin, experts say.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 30, 2025
"Alarming": Report reveals substantial increase in number of Indigenous children placed in care

The number of Indigenous children in out-of-home care (OOHC) in South Australia has increased by more than 33 per cent in the last five years, a report from the state's Guardian for children and young...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 4, 2025
NT Indigenous children in care least likely to be placed with family

New data from the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare (AIHW) has revealed Most Indigenous children removed from their home in the Northern Territory are not placed with an Aboriginal family or...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 27, 2025
Exclusive: In light of new data, experts ask how can Indigenous child removal rates be getting worse?

Almost 24,000 Indigenous children were placed in care at least once in the last financial year, new data has revealed. The latest figures from the Productivity Commission shows 23,956 First Nations ch...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 4, 2025
NT law changes will "undermine basic protections" for Aboriginal children

Proposed law changes in the Northern Territory will undermine basic protections for Indigenous children to be able to grow up with their culture and community, the First Nations children's commissione...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 23, 2025
Enduring Parental Responsibility has “alarming consequences" on Indigenous communities, ACT's Indigenous children's commissioner says

The ACT's inaugural Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People has criticised Enduring Parental Responsibility (EPR), arguing it fails to recognise and protect th...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 25, 2024
Report finds Aboriginal children in South Australia are being unnecessarily removed from families and communities

An "institutionally racist" child protection system is trampling on First Nations children, according to a scathing report released by South Australia's Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 6, 2024
Government urged to act to bring two Aboriginal children without passports back home

Two Aboriginal children stuck in the UK child protection system without passports or visas "beggars' belief," with the nation's peak body for Indigenous children urging them to be brought home immedia...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 31, 2024
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