Care and protection residences are meant to help children with nowhere else to go. Instead, official reports show those kids are experiencing increased serious physical, sexual or emotional harm.
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Indigenous children are admitted to out-of-home care at 11 times the rate for non-Indigenous children. The lack of safe housing for mothers fleeing family violence is a key factor.
Human capital is a key contributor to a country’s economy. Here’s how families and the state can nurture this asset.
Children in care have been treated as criminals, despite doing nothing wrong - and they need compensation beyond an apology.
Children who have been taken into state care need timely decisions on whether to separate them from their birth families. Delayed decisions means leaving children who have suffered abuse and neglect in…
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Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, CI ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies (SOPHIS), School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Faculty of Arts, Monash University
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Associate professor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Director, Kath McFarlane Consulting & Adjunct Associate Professor, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Distinguished Professor, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, University of the Witwatersrand
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Faculty of Health Research Associate, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor of Health, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
