Following the announcement by Family and Community Services Minister Brad Hazzard that every Aboriginal child taken into out-of-home care during the past year will have their case investigated, the Family Matters coalition calls for all states and territories to follow NSW’s lead and call for immediate reviews of over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children being […]

Family Matters welcomes the announcement by the Liberal National Government that $20 million will be spent over four years to fund a new pilot program to reduce the number of Aboriginal children removed by child protection authorities. Currently in WA there are 4,700 children living in out-of-home care, 53% of which are Aboriginal even though […]

The Family Matters campaign is disappointed today’s COAG meeting failed to adopt any measures to address the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children removed by child protection authorities. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children currently represent over 35 per cent of all children who have been removed from their families, despite making up […]

The already alarmingly high numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children being removed from their families will triple across the next two decades unless there is an urgent and concerted effort by government and the community to tackle the problem, the inaugural Family Matters report reveals. Launched on Wednesday at Parliament House in Canberra, […]

PM: Meet with First Peoples Today, on the first day of Federal Parliament, national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership organisations delivered a strong message to Prime Minister Turnbull, his government and the Parliament: the relationship with the First Peoples of this nation must be reset. The national representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait […]