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Family Matters Report 2018: The Family Matters Report 2018 urges that investment in prevention is critical to stopping our national child removals crisis

November 27, 2018 By Family Matters

2018 Family Matters Report

Download the Family Matters Report 2018 The rate at which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are being removed from their families is an escalating national crisis. The Family Matters Report 2018, which is being released at the Healing Our Spirit Worldwide Conference in Sydney today, finds that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are […]

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We must have a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Strategy

June 15, 2018 By Family Matters

No one is advocating to keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in unsafe situations. On this we are all in agreement. We share responsibilities to ensure the right of every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child to be safe and thrive in family, community and culture. Their safety is paramount, our children must be […]

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Number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children removed has doubled since apology – community control key to addressing devastating trend

February 13, 2018 By Family Matters

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 […]

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Target and strategy to eliminate over-representation must follow COAG focus on protecting Australia’s children

February 9, 2018 By Family Matters

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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Family Matters Report 2017: Without urgent action the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children removed from family will triple in the next 20 years

November 29, 2017 By Family Matters

Download the Family Matters Report 2017 The rate at which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are removed from their families is an escalating national crisis. Without immediate action from all levels of government further generations of children will be lost to their families, cultures and communities, according to a new report from the Family […]

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Family Matters is Australia’s
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children grow up safe
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