Child Removal
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.
Children under the age of five will be removed from a state's residential care following a major inquiry's "shocking" findings. The Queensland government has revealed the significant policy change in...
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.
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.
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...