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Advocates warn against adoption expansion in Queensland child protection reform
Advocates say recommendations from a landmark inquiry into Queensland's child pr...
Dechlan Brennan 6 Jun 2026
AbSec calls for action ahead of National Sorry Day, Reconciliation Week: 'Sorry means nothing without systemic change'
Key points:- Ahead of National Sorry Day, AbSec has called for systemic changes...
Jarred Cross 25 May 2026
Investing in families, not removing their children, is the answer
Australia tells itself a comforting story about child protection. We tell oursel...
'We are repeating history' - why the Child Placement Principle must remain
Every time an Aboriginal child dies, the response is the same. Not fund services...
Dr Tracy Westerman 14 May 2026
Indigenous children's advocates unite to bring message to nation's capital
The futures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home car...
Giovanni Torre 26 Mar 2026
Parliament votes to boost independence and powers of National Commissioner for Indigenous children and youth

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.

Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency welcomes reforms to state's Children, Youth and Families Act

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...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Mar 6, 2026
Indigenous leadership key to addressing 'alarming and profoundly disproportionate' rate of child removals

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...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 13, 2026
Sorry, Not Sorry: How the Apology speeches paved the way for mass Aboriginal child removals

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...

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BJ Newton Feb 13, 2026
Governments urged to back Aboriginal-led services as child removals surge

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 11, 2025
‘I will not stop fighting’: Greenlandic Inuit mother battles to reunite with her children

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...

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Rebekah Rasmussen Nov 24, 2025
Champion of truth-telling Sue-Anne Hunter appointed Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People

The federal government has appointed Australia's first permanent National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 3, 2025
“Beads and trinkets”– Lidia Thorpe slams Prime Minister’s “exercise in optics” at Garma

Independent Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe has slammed Anthony Albanese's "annual excursion to Garma" as having become "an exercise in optics, an attempt to Blackwash the Labor Party".

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 2, 2025
Opposition says Closing the Gap Report confirms federal government is "failing Indigenous Australians"

Federal Opposition spokesperson on Indigenous policy, Senator Kerrynne Liddle, has condemned the government for "failing Indigenous Australians" in response to the latest Closing the Gap report.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 31, 2025
Malarndirri McCarthy: States and territories must "back in their commitments" to Close the Gap

Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Malarndirri McCarthy, has responded to the latest Closing the Gap report from the Productivity Commission, noting some improvements but also expressing con...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 31, 2025
Governments “falling well short of what has been promised” on Closing the Gap

The new Productivity Commission report on Australia's performance towards the targets and indicators in the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, released Wednesday night, shows only four of 19 targe...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 30, 2025
Indigenous people must have a strong independent voice at home and on the world stage

The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) is an annual meeting at the UN Headquarters in Geneva focussing on Indigenous people's rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of...

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Dr Hannah McGlade Jul 29, 2025
Indigenous children "let down again" as new data shows no progress on out-of-home care numbers

Indigenous children have been "let down for another 12 months," according to the national peak body for First Nations children, following the release of new government data showing no improvement in c...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 25, 2025
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