Yet the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care is increasing. Between 2021–2022 around 4,100 Indigenous children were placed in out-of-home care nationally.

New Closing the Gap data that shows key targets continuing to go backwards must be “a wake-up call to all governments”, the ...

Once the key site of government plans to "breed out the colour" by removing light-skinned Aboriginal children from their ...

The latest figures from the Productivity Commission show many targets are not on track, not improving, and in some cases ...

The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, which represented the family of Veronica Nelson during a coronial inquest into her ...

With Closing the Gap targets focusing on incarceration, and child protection worsening, advocates say Australia is failing ...

Among children who are incarcerated, First Nations children remain hugely over-represented. In Western Australia, Aboriginal children are nearly 25 times more likely to be incarcerated than non ...

New data reveals mixed results with ongoing progress towards the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, with just four out of 19 targets currently on track to be met.

An Aboriginal leader who works to keep kids from being taken from their community and placed into nonindigenous care is appealing to the Northern Territory government to dump a planned change to child ...