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

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister. "Too many still only have a ...

The latest annual government “Closing the Gap” report, produced by the pro-business Productivity Commission, shows a further deterioration in the economic and social conditions affecting indigenous ...

Health authorities in the Northern Territory are offering additional diphtheria booster doses to Aboriginal children, select non-Aboriginal students and Department of Education staff working in remote ...

The Northern Territory government has introduced new child protection legislation into parliament, which it says will prioritise safety "above all other considerations". But legal services and ...

The NT government wants to amend the legislation. Professor Megan Davis, an eminent Indigenous leader, and William Tilmouth, have responded in this newspaper by saying the real problem lies with ...

Image: First Nations experts and advocates have condemned proposed changes to the NT child protection system that they say could do 'generations' of harm. Source: AAP Image/Melanie Foster. (AAPIMAGE) ...

The Northern Territory's most experienced female lawyer has backed in the government's changes to the child protection act, ...

What is changing?: The bill prioritises child safety over cultural placement rules, making it easier to place Indigenous children with non-Indigenous carers. Who is opposing?: Indigenous organisations ...