16 August 2023
...quality, culturally safe supports empower communities to control decisions affecting children by directing funding to ACCOs and implementing family-led decision-making models end the adoption of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
28 February 2025
...and that any future reforms should only strengthen the elements and improve implementation in practice. The Child Placement Principle was developed in the early 1980s and incorporated into adoption and...
25 October 2024
...and the adoption of recommendations from the Productivity Commission’s A Path to Universal Early Childhood Education and Care report. She urged for a dedicated funding model for Aboriginal community-controlled organisations...
22 November 2024
...the help of Mookai Rosie, an Aboriginal women’s health service, Mary facilitated a cultural adoption, placing her baby with a family member. Mary and the adoptive parent now live in...
04 April 2025
...including: full implementation of Australia’s treaty obligations on racial discrimination and children’s rights adoption of the National Children’s Commissioner’s 2024 youth justice recommendations, including a national task force and a...
06 June 2025
...cases where Aboriginal children have had guardianship transferred to non-Aboriginal people—what she called ‘pseudo-adoption’—and said that South Australia should have learned from the past. Kaurna, Narungga, Ngadjuri and Ngarrindjeri man...
11 October 2023
...child welfare matters reduce the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and out-of-home care systems. The adoption of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child...
