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The inaugural Aboriginal Child Survival Seminar was held in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1979.There the attendees proposed the formation of a national peak body to advocate for and represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children nationally, the main driver being the high rates of removal of Indigenous children from their families by the state and territory child protection systems. [1]
Gooda in 2015. Mick Gooda is an Aboriginal Australian public servant. He has particularly served as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights Commission from 2009 to 2016 and as Co-Commissioner of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory from 2016 to 2017.
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs became part of the Department of Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs in 1970. The latter became the Department of Social Welfare in 1972. [148] In 2018, the South Australian government established the role of "Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People". [149]
A portrayal entitled The Taking of the Children on the 1999 Great Australian Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, by artist Chris Cooke. The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under ...
The Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory [1] is a Royal Commission established in 2016 by the Australian Government pursuant to the Royal Commissions Act 1902 to inquire into and report upon failings in the child protection and youth detention systems of the Government of the Northern Territory.
In September 2023 the Commission proposed 46 recommendations to improve the child protection and criminal justice systems in Victoria, including raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years of age, after finding that Aboriginal children were 21 times more likely to be in foster care in Victoria than non-Aboriginal children ...
The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, also known as the MWTRC, [1] was a commission looking at events relating to Wabanaki children and families from 1978, when the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was passed, until now. The Commission was officially established on February 12, 2012 and issued its final ...
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) Queensland Heritage Commission of Inquiry (Children in State Care and Children on APY Lands) Act 2004: South Australia Investigatory/ Child protection [19] Aboriginal Land Council Elections Act 2004: Tasmania Elections Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006: Victoria Heritage [20]