Child Protection
Shine Lawyers will begin a program of free community information sessions across Western Australia from 28 September as part of its WA First Nations Child Removal Class Action.
The federal Minister for Indigenous Australians is being saddled with a "toxic cultural load" in having to front the media over government "failures" across portfolios, Senator Lidia Thorpe says.
Systemic issues in child protection involving Indigenous children have not been raised with the government at the United Nations, the Prime Minister says, despite multiple UN reports highlighting conc...
There is something dispiriting about Senate inquiries. Organisations — some working on the smell of an oily rag — trek to their respective capital cities to give evidence they have provide...
Ministers and Indigenous leaders will attend a roundtable on child safety in Western Australia next week following allegations that children were left alone in poor conditions at a house in the state'...
Every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child deserves the chance to grow up healthy, strong in identity and Culture, connected to family, Community and Country and surrounded by the people who kn...
It is a "simplistic" and "racist" narrative that child protection failures nationwide are a failure of the child placement principle, Senator Lidia Thorpe says, as she backed calls for an urgent round...
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 re...
Western Australia's Child Protection Minister Jessica Stojkovski has flown to the Pilbara in the state's north after reports vulnerable Aboriginal children are being left alone in poor conditions, som...
The relationship between the Northern Territory Government and Aboriginal organisations and peak bodies is at an all-time low, with key members pulling out of a key Closing the Gap forum over a breakd...
Aboriginal-led solutions, decision-making and reform are critically needed as "another Stolen Generation" is "unfolding in real time, in front of our eyes", child protection sector leaders warn.
This year's Child Protection Week (September 6-12) theme, Every Conversation Matters: Shifting Conversation to Action, is an important one. Because when it comes to Aboriginal* children and families...
Note: This piece contains references to domestic and family violence and the abuse of children. Dorothy Papertalk lost her three grandchildren in 2022, at the hands of their mother, her daughter Marga...
