Gemma Evans, a young Yorta Yorta woman, is studying her Diploma of Youth Work. She’s also working with the council running the Koori Youth Group and working as an Aboriginal Mentor to young women through a Geelong-based youth organisation. “I work with a lot of young women who are out-of-home, [who are] in the justice […]
We Believe Family Matters – Cormach’s Story
Cormach Evans is a proud Yorta Yorta man and the founder and creator of Strong Brother, Strong Sister, an Aboriginal youth mentoring organisation, which was created on Wadawurrung Country in Geelong. Founded in May 2017, Strong Brother, Strong Sister is creating culturally appropriate safe spaces for Aboriginal young people to access and thrive within, so that they […]
After the Apology
After the Apology is a powerful new feature documentary by Larissa Behrendt which follows four Aboriginal grandmothers who each face their own battle to challenge government policies to bring their grandkids home. Their grassroots actions spearhead a national conversation to curb the skyrocketing rates of child removal. Kicking off our National Week of Action on 14 […]
Number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children removed has doubled since apology – community control key to addressing devastating trend
Today, across Australia, over 17,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are living in out-of-home care, more than twice as many children than on this day in 2008 when the Parliament of Australia apologised. Ten years ago today, the nation stopped as then Prime Minister Rudd apologised, on behalf of successive governments, for removing generations […]
Target and strategy to eliminate over-representation must follow COAG focus on protecting Australia’s children
Family Matters welcomes the focus on protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from today’s COAG meeting, and encourages the establishment of a target and strategy to genuinely address the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children removed from their families. As the nation prepares to reflect on a decade passing since the Apology […]
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