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Signatures developed to replace rituals as a form of legal validation. Indigenous people have seen their marks used against them and rallied communities to use signatures in innovative protests.
State archives hold precious Noongar letters pleading for the return of Stolen Generations children. Among them, I find my grandmother’s grandfather: historical records of love.
Aileen Marwung Walsh's grandparents were sent to the Moore River Native Settlement, of Rabbit Proof Fence infamy, half a century ago. In 2018, 100 years after the settlement's founding, she returned.
One of the state's most significant powers is the ability to remove children from their families. Potential reforms in NSW could expand this already racialised power in frightening ways.
ACMA's finding on the Sunrise segment is simply holding those responsible to the minimum standards expected.
The tenth Closing the Gap report shows only three of the seven targets are on track to be met.
The National Gallery of Australia's Third National Indigenous Art Triennial presents a passionate well-considered argument for an enduring Aboriginal culture.
The relationship between Canada's Aboriginal peoples and non-indigenous population has never been an equal one, even though the 1982 national constitution recognises Aboriginal rights.
Researchers aim to record the experiences of the last people to live under the control of the Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board in NSW as part of a complete history of its far-reaching impacts.
A bill before South Australian parliament would make it the second Australian state to compensate Stolen Generation survivors and their children. Tangible recognition of their suffering is overdue, but…
After a long period of expansion in the number of children living in out-of-home care, most modern child protection systems around the world have been labouring to prevent such placements. Instead, they’re…
In some jurisdictions of Australia, the rate of Indigenous children in foster, kinship and residential care on any one night has reached almost one in ten. This rate is almost ten times higher than non-Aboriginal…
Most people reasonably assume there is evidence of good long-term outcomes for children who come into contact with child protection systems. Why else would we intervene in the lives of children and their…
Five years ago, Kevin Rudd made an apology to the Stolen Generations of this country for the wholesale practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families and the identity-shattering impacts this…
As we are about to mark the 14th National Sorry Day and the fourth since the National Apology was delivered by former prime minister Kevin Rudd, I can’t help but wonder if much has changed since the days…
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Co-Director, Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia
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Manager of Indigenous Student Services, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer Social Work, Monash University
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Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Director Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit, Monash University
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Assistant Professor in International Law, University of Western Australia
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PhD Candidate in Humanities, Concordia University; Honorary Fellow, UWA Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia
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Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
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Professor, Social Work, Monash University
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Associate Research Professor, University of South Australia
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Associate professor, Head of Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Parenting Research Centre
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Professor & Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy, University of Toronto, University of Toronto
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Director/Chair of Aboriginal History - The Wollotuka Institute, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
