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 ...

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, ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Child sexual abuse is widespread in Australia's Aboriginal communities where a "river of grog" or alcohol is destroying indigenous society, leaving children vulnerable to ...

(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 ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Writer-director Jon Bell’s debut feature uses a predatory monster as an allegory for the Stolen Generations, Aboriginal children taken from their parents in white assimilation programs. By David ...

Aboriginal organisations will lead the response to child protection investigations about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families through a new pilot, in an effort to reduce ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister. "Too many still only have a ...

Grace Sarra receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The research in this article is part of project for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Marnee Shay receives funding ...