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Every time an Aboriginal child dies, the response is the same. Not fund services. Not resource families. Demonise an entire culture. I cannot think of a single instance where a non-Indigenous child's...
The launch of the National Child and Family Investment Strategy has been welcomed by the peak body for Indigenous children and families, which says it can shift the focus from crisis response to preve...
An Aboriginal child, moved 1,700 kilometres from his remote Northern Territory community, must be returned so he can experience culture, a family appeals court has ruled.
Sue-Anne Hunter does not speak like a bureaucrat, nor like someone shaped by years inside the Canberra bubble. Warm, direct and grounded, her no-nonsense vernacular reflects a life spent fighting for...
The futures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care are at the centre of a major event and united stand at Parliament House on Thursday to "change the trajectory of Targe...
Federal legislation has passed through Parliament increasing the independence and powers of the National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People.
VACCA - the Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency - has welcomed the passage of amendments to the Children, Youth and Families Act by the Children, Youth and Families Amendment (Stability) B...
As the nation reflects on the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, Indigenous advocacy group Children's Ground notes recent national data confirms First Nations children continue to be removed...
Eighteen years after the National Apology, the systematic removal and racial targeting of Aboriginal children is worse than ever. The promise of 13 February 2008 - that our children would be safe, fam...
While community-controlled organisations are delivering solutions that help close the gap, experts argue governments are failing to follow through with the commitments and funding required to ensure t...
This article contains reporting of child removals some readers may find distressing. Greenlandic mother Keira Alexandra Kronvold has spent more than a year fighting to have her baby returned after Dan...
The Australian Child Rights Taskforce has written to the United Nations to support a complaint lodged by the Human Rights Law Centre and Indigenous international law experts Professor Megan Davis and...
The federal government has appointed Australia's first permanent National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People.