Stolen Generations children raising their hands at Kinchela. [Photo by Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation] The Guardian recently published a distressing account of the maltreatment suffered by ...

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(Sydney, March 27, 2025) – Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care, Human Rights Watch ...

Growing up in an Indigenous Aboriginal family in Australia, nothing was scarier to horror director Jon Bell than the government. He recalls the “Stolen Generations,” a tragedy that Americans likely ...

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and former senator Nova Peris visited Bubup Wilam in 2014 to talk about cuts to Indigenous affairs by the Abbott government. Photo: Justin McManus "If we let Bubup fail, ...

(Adds political, community groups reaction, paras 13-17) By James Grubel CANBERRA, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's plan to crack down on Aboriginal child sex abuse sparked fears among some Aborigines ...

The annual “Closing the Gap” report released at the end of last year by the federal Labor government pointed to an alarming economic and social crisis afflicting Aboriginal workers and youth.

These words come from the Australian song “Took the Children Away,” written and sung by the late Gunditjmara and Bundjalung elder Archie Roach. They speak to the importance of country, community, ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The government of Canada discriminated against aboriginal children by underfunding welfare services on reserves, a human rights tribunal ruled on Tuesday, a decision that could ...

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