Child Safety
The ACT's first Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People has alleged she left the "dream role" after being assaulted by a public servant.
Where early childhood centres put profits ahead of children's safety, there is a serious problem, the CEO of Australia's peak body for Indigenous children and families says.
Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Legal Service provided an important submission to the Child Safety Commission of Inquiry this week during its first public hearings in Cairns.
The Queensland government has announced an inquiry into the state's child protection system to uncover the "failures" after a new report found alarming rates of abuse and neglect.
The peak body for Indigenous children has slammed Peter Dutton's renewed calls for a royal commission into sexual abuse of First Nations children in remote communities, labelling it a "demonisation of...
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...
A proposed amendment to a law in the Northern Territory making it easier to remove Aboriginal children from their communities continues to be criticised, with the country's largest Indigenous legal or...
Groups that get the best results in cultural support, reunification with kin and connection to culture for children are receiving the least funding, a new report from Australia's peak body for Indigen...
South Australia's Guardian for Children and Young People says the government's response to feedback on proposed child safety legislation has been "lukewarm, at best".
Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung senator Lidia Thorpe has called on the federal government to urgently implement the recommendations of the 1997 Bringing Them Home report, following news that a 10...
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