A national conference of over 1200 Aboriginal and Torres Strait child development workers in Adelaide is calling for a strategy to eliminate the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in out-of-home care. The 8th SNAICC National Conference begins this morning at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Our children are 11 times more likely to be […]

More than 1200 delegates including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children’s services, health and wellbeing workers from the government and non-government sectors are in Adelaide this week for the 8th SNAICC National Conference. The 8th SNAICC National Conference is a chance for people from communities across the country to come together to share knowledge about […]

Statement: SNAICC pays tribute to ‘Nanna’ Ningali Lawford-Wolf – Ambassador of Children’s Day 2019 SNAICC – National Voice for our Children was shocked and saddened by the recent sudden passing of Wangkatjungka woman Ningali Lawford-Wolf while on tour in Scotland for the theatre performance of The Secret River. A Wangkatjungka woman born under a tree […]

Media Release 4 August 2019 – Australia celebrates National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day SNAICC – National Voice for our Children, the peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, has been coordinating National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day (Children’s Day) for over 30 years. The theme for Children’s Day […]

Media Release 20 May 2019 – SNAICC urges new Morrison Government to prioritise strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children SNAICC congratulates the returning Coalition Government, and is ready to work alongside a new Indigenous Affairs Minister and Social Services Minister to prioritise better outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. We believe […]

Media Release 3 April 2019 – Lacklustre federal budget unlikely to provide required change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are invisible yet again in a federal budget that includes no significant investments to address the long-standing issues faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The Federal […]

Media Release 29 March 2019 – Morrison Government must scrap ParentsNext and stop making women’s lives harder The Morrison Government cannot delay scrapping its discriminatory ParentsNext program, with a Senate Inquiry finding that the program is causing “anxiety, distress and harm” for many parents, including for women escaping violence. The findings of a Senate Inquiry […]

Media Release 27 March 2019 – SNAICC to provide voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children through new Closing the Gap Joint Council SNAICC – National Voice for our Children, the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, will play a vital role in progressing the rights of children over the […]