A day before Deborah Melville’s death in July 2007, the 12-year-old was visited by a Northern Territory child-protection worker at her foster home outside of Darwin, Australia. The caseworker noted ...

Stolen Generations children raising their hands at Kinchela. [Photo by Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation] The Guardian recently published a distressing account of the maltreatment suffered by ...

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Growing up in an Indigenous Aboriginal family in Australia, nothing was scarier to horror director Jon Bell than the government. He recalls the “Stolen Generations,” a tragedy that Americans likely ...

Researchers from Telethon Kids Institute have been awarded a $1.1 million NHMRC "Targeted Call for Hearing Health" grant to conduct the first ever study following Aboriginal babies from birth through ...

(Sydney, March 27, 2025) – Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care, Human Rights Watch ...

Australia has recorded the highest number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody in more than four ...

These words come from the Australian song “Took the Children Away,” written and sung by the late Gunditjmara and Bundjalung elder Archie Roach. They speak to the importance of country, community, ...

LONDON, July 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly one in five aboriginal children born in Western Australia has no birth documents with most unregistered children born to teenage mothers and facing ...

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