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Analysis: When every expert is ignored, who is left to speak for children?
If the Northern Territory Government really cares about children, it has an inte...
Dechlan Brennan 10 Jul 2026
Children's Commissioner's resignation lays bare NT government's 'lack of care and accountability'
The resignation of the Northern Territory's Children's Commissioner is evidence...
Dechlan Brennan 10 Jul 2026
NT Children's Commissioner walks away, citing erosion of transparency and child safeguards
The Northern Territory's Children's Commissioner has resigned in a bombshell ann...
Dechlan Brennan 9 Jul 2026
'Politics over evidence': Fury as NT committee endorses child protection bill
A Northern Territory parliamentary committee has recommended passing the controv...
Dechlan Brennan 9 Jul 2026
Fiji launches free parenting app to support families

Families across Fiji can now access a free parenting app offering practical support from pregnancy through to a child's first six years. The Bebbo Pacific Parenting App was launched by the Ministry of...

Fijian Government and Salvation Army partner to support vulnerable boys

Fiji's Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection has signed an agreement with the Salvation Army Fiji Division to strengthen support for vulnerable adolescent boys who have been removed from t...

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Rebekah Rasmussen Jun 25, 2026
Queensland child safety report sparks renewed debate over racism in child protection

The peak advocate for Indigenous children has launched a sharp rebuke of a landmark Queensland child protection inquiry, arguing its finding that racism plays no role in the removal of First Nations c...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 9, 2026
Advocates warn against adoption expansion in Queensland child protection reform

Advocates say recommendations from a landmark inquiry into Queensland's child protection system contradict much of the expert and lived-experience evidence presented during the review.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 6, 2026
Inquiry submissions overwhelmingly oppose NT child protection reforms

The overwhelming majority of submissions to a Northern Territory parliamentary inquiry into proposed child protection reforms have urged the government to reconsider changes critics say will "ultimate...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 5, 2026
New report shows NT's most vulnerable children left unsafe in state care

The Northern Territory's child protection system is failing to keep many children safe after they are removed from their families, a new report says, with high rates of harm, repeated incidents, major...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 2, 2026
Failure to properly implement child placement principle drives Queensland's out-of-home care numbers

Queensland's child protection reforms have failed to reduce the over-representation of Indigenous young people in out-of-home care, the state's Commissioner for First Nations children says.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 29, 2026
Independent oversight urgently needed in NSW child protection system, experts say

An independent body designed to protect and support children in New South Wales' child protection system is urgently needed, experts say, arguing current accountability mechanisms are failing.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 28, 2026
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 to keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families together- "We say sorry to the Stolen Generations.

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross May 25, 2026
NT Chief Minister dismisses child protection criticism as 'hysteria'

Just a day after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged governments to engage respectfully with Aboriginal communities and experts, Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has dismissed conce...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 22, 2026
Investing in families, not removing their children, is the answer

Australia tells itself a comforting story about child protection. We tell ourselves children are only removed from their families when there is no other choice.

One place, one story: Tri-state child protection pilot launched across the NPY Lands

A new "tri-state child protection initiative" was launched in Mparntwe / Alice Springs on Tuesday, with the NPY Women's Council in partnership with the Northern Territory, South Australian, Western Au...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 19, 2026
NT Government making 'serious mistake' with child protection changes, Indigenous Social Justice Commissioner warns

Condemnation of the Northern Territory government's decision to significantly alter a principle designed to ensure Aboriginal children removed from their families remain connected to culture has conti...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 19, 2026
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