- 1. Aboriginal Australians lose land rights to Adani ...
- (Mining)
- ... a North American indigenous person, some Aboriginal Australians might be singing it today. W&J Council leader Adrian Burragubba and his group of Wangan and Jagalingou representatives are being made to ...
- Created on 02 September 2019
- 2. Aboriginal woman wins battle to keep baby after six court appearances ...
- (Uncategorised)
- Advocates for the mother, who has foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, suggest bid to remove the boy informed by prejudice. An Aboriginal woman has been allowed to return home ...
- Created on 18 July 2019
- 3. White foster carer jailed for 7 years after torturing Aboriginal girl ...
- (NSW DHS - FACS)
- A 31 year old foster carer was sentenced to seven years jail last Friday in Parkes district court, over the assault of a 5 year old Aboriginal girl. This story was previously published in the media last ...
- Created on 30 October 2017
- 4. The Public Trustee, the Adult (Public) Guardian and their Aboriginal client. ...
- (Uncategorised)
- ... of the Queensland’s guardianship agencies’ structural inability to engage with Aboriginal clients, their life needs and the perspective of their families. As such, statutory authorities’ substituted decision ...
- Created on 03 September 2015
- 5. "Aboriginal Mother Suicide linked to pressure by DoCS Tweed Heads" ...
- (Uncategorised)
- ... assistance, which they continue to portray they do, they removed her child and placed him/her with the white paternal grandparents. This automatically caused the young child to be alienated from his aborigina ...
- Created on 01 December 2012
- 6. Allegations of cover-ups, staff frustration and management inaction at Ashley youth prison, abuse inquiry hears
- (Youth Detention)
- ... iff drops health portfolio in cabinet reshuffle What can we learn from Aboriginal-run medical clinics? Charity site bought back for $1 after staff member's memory jolt Football game abandoned after u ...
- Created on 04 August 2023
- 7. Ashley Youth Detention Centre guards forced child to perform sexual acts to get his medication, inquiry hears
- (Youth Detention)
- ... nkle of more relevant state stories. Here's a taste of the latest stories from Tasmania 📰 Tasmanian paramedics ready for Ukraine mission Rockliff drops health portfolio in cabinet reshuffle ...
- Created on 04 August 2023
- 8. Ashley youth detainee alleges bribes offered if 'nice things' said about Tasmanian prison at abuse inquiry
- (Youth Detention)
- ... ries. Here's a taste of the latest stories from Tasmania 📰 Tasmanian paramedics ready for Ukraine mission Rockliff drops health portfolio in cabinet reshuffle What can we learn from Aboriginal- ...
- Created on 23 August 2022
- 9. ‘Absolutely appalling’: 100 vulnerable children died in NSW last year
- (Child Protection NSW media and newspaper articles)
- ... There will never be enough caseworkers if that’s what we do … Is this the kind of Australia we’re prepared to live in?” The report found Aboriginal children were represented at a disproportionately higher ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 10. Representative Proceedings and Complaints to HREOC
- (Representative Proceedings)
- ... In Stokes v Royal Flying Doctor Service,[148] Mr Stokes lodged a complaint with HREOC on behalf of the Ninga Mia Christian Fellowship and the Wongutha Birni Aboriginal Corporation. When the matter came ...
- Created on 01 May 2021
- 11. 400 deaths, zero convictions: Australia's national shame.
- (Indigenous Murders by Police)
- WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains names and descriptions of people who have died. On January 2, 2020, Veronica ...
- Created on 29 May 2020
- 12. We have a right to expect government to do what markets cannot: social and economic protection for all of us
- (Australia)
- ... by those communities. As Lorena Allam points out: “Crowding in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities occurs at around three times the rate of the non-Indigenous population, with over 115,000 ...
- Created on 02 May 2020
- 13. Helen Warr still stalking and denigrating Karina Vodden
- (Harassed Clients)
- ... of abuse both verbal & written against you, claiming that you neglect his medical needs, you are abusing him, his aboriginal heritage (not on your side of the family & she won’t tell anyone who his fa ...
- Created on 17 April 2020
- 14. From farms and coal mines to airports and water supplies: How China is gobbling up millions of acres of land, vital infrastructure and companies - as part of its 'disturbing' plan to exert greater influence ...
- (China)
- ... n Western Australia and the Northern Territory and is used for cattle farming. Earlier this year, one of the biggest Chinese landowners in Australia was accused of illegally clearing Aboriginal land ...
- Created on 28 March 2020
- 15. WA Police officer charged with murder over Joyce Clarke shooting death in Geraldton
- (Indigenous Murders by Police)
- ... said the local Aboriginal community had suffered due to the whole situation. "The toll has taken a great deal of pressure on the community," he said. Struggle with demons revealed Details of Ms ...
- Created on 20 February 2020
- 16. A Canadian pension fund could now be the largest owner of water in the Murray Darling Basin
- (Water)
- ... Country: Aboriginal Flags Have Begun Flying At Half Mast Around Australia JANUARY 17, 2020 “Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians all understand that by lowering a flag we acknowledge that ...
- Created on 17 February 2020
- 17. ACT child protection laws 'well short' of human rights standards, Human Rights Commissioner says
- (Child Protection ACT media and newspaper articles)
- ... t during evidence to the Assembly's inquiry into information sharing in the territory's child protection system. The inquiry was sparked by the ACT government's wrongful removal of five Abori ...
- Created on 12 February 2020
- 18. PM blames drought, but there’s been over 100 cases of maladministration in Murray Darling in less than one year
- (Water)
- ... Responsible Technology Climate & Energy Program Nordic Policy Centre International & Security Affairs Program The Australia Institute acknowledges Aboriginal and T ...
- Created on 23 January 2020
- 19. Report shows improvements to state’s child protection system
- (Child Protection Queensland media and newspaper articles)
- ... protection orders in Queensland was 8.9 per 1,000 children at 30 June 2019 – the lowest of all jurisdictions and below the national average of 10.6. “While Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children ...
- Created on 23 January 2020
- 20. Separating kids from parent/s — “The effect is catastrophic” and “A form of child abuse”
- (Child Abuse)
- ... to do in most circumstances. I can cite many cases where the departments and courts are acting in the worst interests of the child/ren. The Washington Post article reports that, “Research on Aboriginal ...
- Created on 16 January 2020
- 21. State Govt announces plan to curb "concerning" child protection stats
- (Child protection propaganda)
- ... separate “First 1000 Days of Life” strategy, to be implemented by the Health Department. The strategy also outlines a general pledge to tackle the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children “in all part ...
- Created on 03 December 2019
- 22. Vulnerable children choose prison over residential care: guardian
- (Child Protection Truths)
- ... in commercial care. According to Wright’s report, Aboriginal children continue to be overrepresented in non-family-based care, making up 35 per cent of children living in residential care and 33 per ...
- Created on 28 November 2019
- 23. Sex abuse rife in Vic residential care
- (Children abused in residential care facilities)
- ... ly and their communities. Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People Justin Mohamed said since 2008/09, there had been a tripling of Aboriginal children removed by the state. In 2017/18, n ...
- Created on 27 November 2019
- 24. 'Broken and unsafe': Child-safety watchdog finds state care often harmful
- (Uncategorised)
- ... f foster carers. This increase is particularly marked for Aboriginal children: the number removed from their parents and living in care has tripled in the past decade, from 680 to 2000. Meanwhile, V ...
- Created on 27 November 2019
- 25. The problem with child protection isn’t the money, it’s the system itself
- (Research on Child Protection)
- ... they were reported to child protection 229 times. For most of these children, including six who identified as Aboriginal, reporting began when they were three years old. Some 90% of these reports were ...
- Created on 19 November 2019
- 26. NSW child-protection workers 'regularly' mislead court and needlessly take Indigenous kids: report
- (Child Protection NSW media and newspaper articles)
- A damning review of Facs’ approach to Aboriginal families finds urgent reform is needed. New South Wales child protection workers regularly give “misleading” evidence to the children’s ...
- Created on 08 November 2019
- 27. NSW child-protection workers 'regularly' mislead court and needlessly take Indigenous kids: report
- (Research on Child Protection)
- A damning review of Facs’ approach to Aboriginal families finds urgent reform is needed. New South Wales child protection workers regularly give “misleading” evidence to ...
- Created on 08 November 2019
- 28. How the child protection system failed to keep Maggie safe
- (Children abused in residential care facilities)
- ... a spokesperson told ABC News it had no firm plans to close other facilities. It has also introduced an Aboriginal-specific residential care service designed to help Indigenous children overcome trau ...
- Created on 11 October 2019
- 29. 2,000 NSW children removed from their families were placed in motels
- (Child Protection)
- ... care arrangements”. Half the children ending up in this kind of accommodation are Aboriginal children. Removing Aboriginal children from their families has failed. There is another way. Data ...
- Created on 15 August 2019
- 30. Chrissie Foster urges MPs to strip Catholic seal of confession's mandatory reporting exemption
- (Paedophile Priests)
- ... tional amendments in the Children Legislation Amendment Bill 2019 include measures to keep Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal siblings in care together and boost the legal status of child immunisations. Source : https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-14/mandatory-reporting-laws-for-victorian-priest-religious-figures/11 ...
- Created on 14 August 2019
- 31. Child protection not improving despite reforms
- (Uncategorised)
- ... to build stronger families and ensure greater safety for children. In 2016–17, 168,352 Australian children (3.1% of the total Australian children) received child protection services. Aboriginal and ...
- Created on 26 July 2019
- 32. Barwon-Darling river ecosystem on path to collapse, review warns
- (Water)
- ... health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people is strongly connected to the health of the river. Aboriginal community members repeatedly told the commission that the lack of flows since 2012 has resulted i ...
- Created on 24 July 2019
- 33. Personal stories of contact with the Queensland adult guardianship system
- (Australian public guardian corruption)
- ... person’s story. His supporters have previously published the whole story and been order by QCAT to remove it) The Public Trustee, the Adult (Public) Guardian and their Aboriginal client. BLC’s stroke ...
- Created on 19 July 2019
- 34. Clinton Speedy-Duroux murder investigator Gary Jubelin charged with misconduct
- (Paedophiles in the system)
- ... t him," she said. In addition to leading the fresh search for William, Jubelin was involved in investigating the death of Sydney man Matthew Leveson and the disappearance of Clinton and two other Ab ...
- Created on 24 June 2019
- 35. Top NSW cop involved in William Tyrrell case charged
- (Uncategorised)
- ... William Tyrrell, Mr Jubelin was involved in investigating the death of Sydney man Matthew Leveson and the disappearance of three Aboriginal children in Bowraville across his 34-year career. Source : http://www.mygc.com.au/top-nsw-cop-involved-in-william-tyrrell-case-to-be-charged/ ...
- Created on 21 June 2019
- 36. Employee of PM’s department arrested over child sex abuse
- (Uncategorised)
- ... and that he has been active in several communities in the Alice Springs region. A spokeswoman for the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress said “any abuse, especially against children, (is) unacceptable ...
- Created on 26 May 2019
- 37. ‘Were you turned on by this at all? Even a little bit?’: RCMP officer asks Indigenous youth during sexual assault report
- (Uncategorised)
- ... sadly unsurprising to the woman today. “I think a lot of Aboriginal women can relate to this,” she said. “Maybe now that there is video evidence of how police treat victims something will be done about ...
- Created on 13 May 2019
- 38. Penny-pinching, raking in huge fees: public trustees under scrutiny
- (Guardianship)
- ... titudes. At the 2015 Senate Inquiry, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) presented evidence that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are over-represented in the adult gua ...
- Created on 03 February 2019
- 39. Queensland's billion-dollar child safety bill
- (Child Protection Queensland media and newspaper articles)
- ... 1000 children, or 5767 children. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were over-represented in the figures, making up 37 per cent of substantiations. There were 11,157 Queensland children ...
- Created on 21 January 2019
- 40. Research shows Australian government continuing to fail our most vulnerable children almost 30 years after signing the UN Children’s Convention
- (What are people saying about child protection / social services / welfare workers)
- ... to minimum standards for our children by signing the UN Children’s Convention, improvements have been only incremental and isolated.” Mr Stuart said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, children ...
- Created on 01 November 2018
- 41. New South Wales politics Fears of ‘another stolen generation’ after New South Wales' move on foster care
- (Child Protection Truths)
- ... allowance, from 1 July, to encourage eligible carers to come forward. It has refused to rule out adoption as a last resort for Aboriginal children, which has alarmed the Aboriginal Child, Family and ...
- Created on 27 October 2018
- 42. Why children in institutional care may be worse off now than they were in the 19th century
- (Research on Child Protection)
- ... due to the failures of the country’s child protection policies. The Bringing Them Home report in 1997 examined the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, ...
- Created on 22 October 2018
- 43. Australia facing an 'epidemic of child abuse and neglect', according to experts
- (Uncategorised)
- ... riod. The team looked at three specific groups — unborn children who have a child protection report, families that were repeatedly being reported, and Aboriginal families. PHOTO Professor Ar ...
- Created on 06 September 2018
- 44. What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’
- (Foster care research)
- ... into safe or dangerous does not work like it’s supposed to. Things that are not threatening seem threatening,” she said. Research on Aboriginal children in Australia who were removed from their familie ...
- Created on 18 June 2018
- 45. Remote Indigenous artists open up own gallery to stop 'dodgy' art dealers
- (Uncategorised)
- ... ts when they visited towns like Alice Springs. IMAGEArtists painting at Mimili Maku Arts in the APY Lands.(ABC News: Steven Schubert) "There's a few white fellas going around searching for Abori ...
- Created on 24 March 2018
- 46. Baby murder’ rocks child protection system
- (Child abuse industry deaths in NSW)
- ... “charged with murder and refused bail” comes after The Daily Telegraph made multiple inquiries. The newspaper had discovered the Aboriginal child had a broken femur and multiple bruises on his face at ...
- Created on 08 January 2018
- 47. What is Administrative Violence?
- (Newsflash)
- Administrative Violence starts out with paperwork and can end up with a removed child. Associate Professor, Tess Lea explores just how common Administrative Violence is in Aboriginal Australia. Administrative ...
- Created on 30 November 2017
- 48. New Queensland Child protection legislation receives assent
- (Legislation and Acts)
- ... long-term care; promote the safe care and connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with their families, communities and cultures; provide a contemporary information sharing regime ...
- Created on 14 November 2017
- 49. A behind the scenes look into corporate fraud in Australia
- (Political Corruption Articles)
- ... -Police officer, believed to be the brother of Kel Glare. Corrupt/or adverse mention GOLDEN, Graeme Angus – Magistrate. Corrupt/or adverse mention GORDON, Steven – Aboriginal Commissioner (ATSIC/NSW); ...
- Created on 17 October 2017
- 50. Hunter Aboriginal Services ...
- (Tags)
- Hunter Aboriginal Services ...
- Created on 23 January 2017