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Latest news

  • Family Matters Report 2021: we know what works – time to make it happen
  • ‘Governments must let go of their power over the lives of Australia’s First Nations children’
  • Family Matters welcomes Dr Paul Gray as new co-chair
  • Call for a National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people – Options Paper
  • SNAICC and Family Matters commend stronger powers for South Australia Aboriginal Children’s Commissioner
  • SNAICC & Family Matters outline model options for a national commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people

Media coverage

The Family Matters Report 2021

  • Dr Paul Gray’s op ed was published in The Guardian for Indigenous X
  • Contributors to the ‘Ensuring our babies get the safest start’ session also discussed the issues in this article for The Conversation

The Family Matters Report 2020

  • Too many Aboriginal children are growing up disconnected from their Mob, Country and culture – Sue-Anne Hunter for IndigenousX, The Guardian
  • ‘Alarming rate’: removal of Australia’s Indigenous children escalating, report warns – Lorena Allam, The Guardian
  • Rate of Indigenous youth removed from families rising – ABC News
  • Family Matters: Indigenous kids still over-represented in out of home care – Keira Jenkins, NITV News
  • Out-of-home care at ‘crisis point’ for First Nations children – Rachael Knowles, National Indigenous Times
  • Family Matters Report 2020 (with Sue-Anne Hunter) – The Early Education Show
  • Rate of Indigenous kids in care continues to rise – Geraldine Doogue, RN Breakfast
  • Alarming number of Indigenous children removed from homes, The Courier Mail
  • Family Matters report 2020 highlighting the state of child protection in Australia – 3KND
  • Family Matters Report 2020 and Racism in the Workplace – Daniel James, 3RRR
  • Report reveals children continue to be separated from culture at an alarming rate – Freya Lucas, The Sector
  • Let’s right the wrongs for our children and young people to keep them connected to family and culture – Sue-Anne Hunter, ANTaR
  • Addressing the over-representation of first nations children in out-of-home care – Carissa Lee Godwin, ANZCOG
  • Indigenous kids removal from family grows – Colin Brinsden, AAP

The Family Matters Report 2019

There was mass interest in the Family Matters Report 2019  launch, with more than 50 separate media stories covering the launch and the issues raised in the report.

  • The stolen generations never ended – they just morphed into child protection – Jacynta Krakouer, The Guardian
  • What Andrew Bolt doesn’t understand about the causes of Aboriginal disadvantage – Philip Mendes, ABC Religion & Ethics
  • Family Matters: Disturbing rise in Aboriginal kids removed from home – Bianca Hall, The Age
  • Call for Indigenous children’s strategy – Marnie Banger, Canberrra Times
  • Number of Indigenous children in out-of-home care expected to double – SBS News
  • Number of Indigenous kids removed from families at ‘crisis’ level – Carly Williams, Huffington Post
  • ‘Not just statistics’: Number of Aboriginal children removed from home rises – Brooke Fryer, NITV News
  • SNAICC says Family Matters reveals increasing crisis for children – Freya Lucas, The Sector
  • Hope for children in care – Elspeth Kernebone, Bendigo Advertiser 

Family Matters spokespeople also featured on a number of radio and television programs.

Family Matters Co-Chair Natalie Lewis appeared on:

  • ABC RN Breakfast with Hamish McDonald

Family Matters Co-Chair Richard Weston appeared on: 

  • ABC’s the Drum 
  • Speaking Out with Larissa Behrendt 
  • 3CR Breakfast 
  • Radio Adelaide’s Small Change

Call for the establishment for a national commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people

Family Matters and SNAICC – National Voice for our Children launched a joint position paper calling for the establishment of a national commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people.

Talking about the issue, SNAICC Chairperson Adjunct Professor Muriel Bamblett featured on: 

  • ABC RN Breakfast with Geraldine Doogue

Family Matters Co-Chair and SNAICC CEO Richard Weston featured on:

  • The Mission on Triple R
  • NITV Radio with Bertrand Tungandame

The call for a national commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people was also covered in the following articles:

  • ‘Urgent need’: Demands for national commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children – Tom Stayner, SBS News
  • ‘We want to see change’: Calls for national commissioner for Indigenous children – Luke Michael, Pro Bono News

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Family Matters is Australia’s
national campaign to ensure
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children grow up safe
and cared for surrounded by
their own family, community and
culture.
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