For every dollar the government spends on Indigenous children, only 16 cents goes to helping families – the rest is on taking ...

Our new report follows the lives of around 1,700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the largest study of its kind. We wanted to understand what helps them thrive as they grow up. For ...

The gap between school attendance rates for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal kids in NSW remains large but one school sector has closed the gap more than the others. Here’s how. Meanwhile, while the ...

Amy was two and a half years old when she was taken into state care. She would have seven different placements, seven different homes, during her childhood. "I was never told that I was in care, I ...

A PROMINENT Aboriginal lawyer says a radical new approach is needed to avoid losing another generation of indigenous wards of the state to despair and dysfunction, as ANDREW DOWDELL reports. Mr ...

A leaked document seen by the ABC has outlined a planned change to Northern Territory child protection law. The change would allow courts to make decisions about removing children from their homes, ...

Former foster parent Amanda Rich says foster children in communities like Natuashish and Sheshatshiu have a unique opportunity to maintain their culture while in care, and has stressed the importance ...

Every year 140,000 kids need care and treatment at HSC Children’s Hospital. At any given time, 60 per cent of them are Indigenous. Many of them come from remote and northern communities, travelling ...

Indigenous children continue to be removed from family at 'obscene' rates, as advocates urge an overhaul of how child ...

Dozens of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children have received free and fast-tracked surgery to prevent hearing loss and chronic ear disease. Jahkye is one of 100 children whose lives have ...

Just a week ago, on ABC Melbourne radio, Greens MP Lidia Thorpe complained that 17,000 Aboriginal children were in out of home care. “It’s just ludicrous. Saying sorry (for the ‘stolen generations’) ...