The 1997 Bringing Them Home report into the removal of Aboriginal children from their families was a turning point in Australia's history. The inquiry rejected past government policies of assimilation ...

The campaign will air on NITV and WIN TV. My Forever Family NSW has launched a campaign to raise awareness in the community about the urgent need for more potential carers to step forward for ...

SIX Aboriginal organisations in the Territory have been granted a total of $2.2 million through the Aboriginal Carers Growing Up Aboriginal Children Grants Round 2 to continue the efforts to recruit ...

Many Indigenous families fear the welfare system. AAP Image/Neda Vanovac In some jurisdictions of Australia, the rate of Indigenous children in foster, kinship and residential care on any one night ...

At any hour of the day or night, Naomi Murphy could get a phone call from a social worker asking if she’s able to offer emergency help to a child in need. The Wakka Wakka woman, who lives in the ...

In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children are nearly 10 times more likely to be removed from their families by child protection services compared to non-Aboriginal children. And data ...

Quotes in this research are from participants who cannot be named due to research ethics requirements. Pandemic-induced lockdowns have provided stories of both hardship and resilience. This extends to ...

NSW Supreme Court judge Geoff Lindsay said in his 12 years behind the bench he had not once formalised the legal adoption of an Aboriginal child, due to a “resistance” in Aboriginal communities to ...