A day before Deborah Melville’s death in July 2007, the 12-year-old was visited by a Northern Territory child-protection worker at her foster home outside of Darwin, Australia. The caseworker noted ...

Growing up in an Indigenous Aboriginal family in Australia, nothing was scarier to horror director Jon Bell than the government. He recalls the “Stolen Generations,” a tragedy that Americans likely ...

Stolen Generations children raising their hands at Kinchela. [Photo by Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation] The Guardian recently published a distressing account of the maltreatment suffered by ...

The annual “Closing the Gap” report released at the end of last year by the federal Labor government pointed to an alarming economic and social crisis afflicting Aboriginal workers and youth.

Casuarina prison is a sprawling, concrete jungle on the southern outskirts of Perth, Western Australia (WA). It is a maximum-security, adult facility, home to people who may never leave its confines.

Senior Research Fellow in Social Policy and Social Work, UNSW Sydney We are edging closer to another anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s National Apology to the Stolen Generations on February 13. At the time ...

Australia's state of Victoria has passed the country's first treaty with Indigenous peoples, a landmark act of recognition ...

These words come from the Australian song “Took the Children Away,” written and sung by the late Gunditjmara and Bundjalung elder Archie Roach. They speak to the importance of country, community, ...

A national early-education program empowers parents from disadvantaged backgrounds to be their child's first teacher, ...

DOCKLANDS, Australia-- When the Kaurna Boomerangs left Adelaide, Australia, in January of 2020, bound for a hockey tour against First Nations teams in Northern Alberta, it was a bit of a shock to the ...

The Minns Labor Government is continuing to build a safer New South Wales for women and children by expanding critical support services to regional ...

Aboriginal Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe publicly accused King Charles of genocide on Monday for the continuing legacy of British colonization on the Aboriginal population of Australia. Genocide, as ...