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