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Aboriginal leaders urge child protection reform, creation of dedicated commissioner and families peak body for WA
Aboriginal leaders from across Western Australia have joined with National Commi...
Giovanni Torre 25 Sep 2026
Aboriginal community group welcomes WA Government's initial response to Port Hedland child safety concerns
Community group Hedland Aboriginal Strong Leaders have welcomed the Western Aust...
Callan Morse 24 Sep 2026
'A grand final should not make a home less safe' - action urged with family violence spike expected
Australia's Indigenous peak body for the prevention of family and domestic viole...
Jarred Cross 23 Sep 2026
WA Government vows multi-agency response to Port Hedland child safety concerns
A raft of measures have been announced to support Western Australia's Port Hedla...
Callan Morse 23 Sep 2026
Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children visits Pilbara ahead of urgent child protection roundtable
The National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and...
Giovanni Torre 23 Sep 2026
Shine Lawyers to meet with WA communities for First Nations Child Removal Class Action

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.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 23, 2026
Funding boost for Aboriginal-led cultural heritage services

Eleven Aboriginal organisations across Western Australia's Mid West and Gascoyne regions have received grants to boost their cultural heritage management services and help them meet growing responsibi...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 22, 2026
Indigenous Business Integrity Register closes less than one year after launch

The Indigenous Business Integrity Register has closed less than 11 months after launch. Former Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt announced the closure on Monday as chair of the Indigenous...

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NIT staff Sep 22, 2026
Exclusive: PM placing 'toxic cultural load' on McCarthy over government 'failures' - Thorpe

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.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 21, 2026
PM says Indigenous child protection issues have not been raised with him at UN, despite reports highlighting concerns

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 21, 2026
Child protection crisis roundtable convened

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'...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 18, 2026
Indigenous researcher develops culturally safe menstrual health resources

Research led by an Aboriginal general practitioner and PhD student at the University of Western Australia has led to the development of culturally safe Aboriginal women's menstrual health resources.

Callan Morse Callan Morse Sep 17, 2026
Child placement principle not the reason behind nationwide child protection failures

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 17, 2026
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