Welfare
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.
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...
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...
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...
Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced bills to Federal Parliament to end two harmful practices in criminal legal systems across Australia: the strip searching of children and the shackling of people dur...
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...
After Mount Isa's only Indigenous social housing provider accumulated almost $1 million in unpaid rates, resulting in 25 properties being placed up for auction, the federal government is facing scruti...
The Fiji Government has partnered with Habitat for Humanity Fiji to construct a Child Wellbeing Centre aimed at supporting children who are street-connected across the country's four divisions.
Lidia Thorpe has demanded a public apology from Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek after the minister criticised the Victorian Senator's opposition to a controversial amendment allowing the gove...
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services has reiterated its grave concerns, alongside over 100 legal experts and community groups, to the Federal Government's Social Security...
A letter signed by more than 100 legal experts and community organisations criticising a bill that would give the federal Minister power to cancel welfare payments before a person is convicted of a cr...
The government's last-minute addition to its social security bill, granting the Minister power to suspend or cancel welfare payments before a person is convicted of a crime, will see children going hu...