Keeping Them Home
- Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families
Special Sorry Day Edition
http://www.nsdc.org.au
"National Sorry Day offers the Community the opportunity
to acknowledge the impact of the policies spanning more
than 150 years of forcible removal of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander children from their families."
Newsletter date: Sorry Day - 26 May 2013
This newsletter: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/
Contents:
* Petition: Keeping Them Home - Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews renowned journalist Jeff McMullen about child removals and the importance of families
* Jeff McMullen, Respect and Listen: The Future of the Family (giving context to the suicide and child removal issues)
* SNAICC News: Keeping Them Home - Elder Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, calls for this trend to be reversed
* Peter Robson, Green Left: NT government risks new stolen generation
* ABC Indigenous: Chief magistrate says NT's child protection department is failing
* Northern Territory (NT) Forced Aboriginal Adoption Media Coverage
* Background to the Stolen Generations and the Bringing Them Home report
* Background to Child Protection and Out-of-home care
* Beyond Nuclear Initiative: Six years and still standing strong: NT trade unions join Traditional Owners to protest Muckaty radioactive waste dump
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* ABC Indigenous: NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nation
* Background to Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody
* CAAMA: NAAJA CEO Priscilla Collins on The Alcohol Protection Order Scheme
* APO NT: Alcohol and Other Drugs
* ABC: New alcohol powers for police
* ABC: Grog culture defended as 'core social value'
* PETITION:
KEEPING THEM HOME:
STOP THE FORCED REMOVAL OF ABORIGINAL CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES
- Petition
Change.org Petition: Keeping Them Home
- Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families
Petitioning Adam Giles
Petition by Stand For Freedom
http://www.change.org/en-AU/
"40 years ago the Stolen Generation happened on our watch.
5 years ago the Nation apologised for it.
Now, forced child removal is happening again on our watch."
"Please read the petition letter to the Chief Minister Adam
Giles, initiated by the Keeping Them Home campaign by
'concerned Australians', and lend your voice to this
important cause."
- Campaign
Keeping Them Home
'concerned Australians': http://www.
Respect and Listen: http://www.respectandlisten.
* LET'S TALK'S TIGA BAYLES INTERVIEWS RENOWNED JOURNALIST JEFF MCMULLEN
ABOUT CHILD REMOVALS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILIES
- Audio Interview
Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane:
Let's Talk - Jeff McMullen
http://www.989fm.com.au/
17 May 13: "Jeff McMullen, Honorary CEO of the Ian Thorpe’s
Foundation For Youth and renowned Journalist."
Listen to this interview on-line:
http://www.989fm.com.au/
* JEFF MCMULLEN, RESPECT AND LISTEN:
THE FUTURE OF THE FAMILY
- Analysis / Opinion
Respect and Listen: The Future of the Family - Jeff McMullen
http://www.respectandlisten.
13 Mar 13: "Many Elders have told me that the family
counselling efforts trialled in Central Australia tap into
traditional approaches for alleviating social crisis by
involving members of the extended family and community
services to discuss how to improve the safety and
well-being of the child. This approach can reduce the
removal of children from family and we should be supporting
the local efforts vigorously." By Jeff McMullen
* SNAICC NEWS:
KEEPING THEM HOME:
ELDER REV DR DJINIYINI GONDARRA, CALLS FOR THIS TREND TO BE REVERSED
- News
SNAICC News: Keeping Them Home
- Elder Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, calls for this trend to be reversed
http://www.snaicc.org.au/news-
23 May 13: "The most recent data shows that the number of
children being moved into out-of-home care in the Northern
Territory has just about doubled since 2007. Two-thirds of
these children are being placed with non-Indigenous
families away from their communities. Elder Rev Dr
Djiniyini Gondarra, as spokesperson for Yolngu Makarr Dhuni
calls for this trend to be reversed by increasing family
support services in communities. He has written to the Chief
Minister of the Northern Territory, Adam Giles, asking him
for his support."
* PETER ROBSON, GREEN LEFT:
NT GOVERNMENT RISKS NEW STOLEN GENERATION
- News
Green Left: NT government risks new stolen generation
http://www.greenleft.org.au/
25 May 13: "Australia’s first Aboriginal parliamentary
leader, Adam Giles, announced on May 13 that his government
would increase the number of Aboriginal children removed
from their families. Concerns that a new stolen generation
could be created were putting children at risk, he said. ...
Since 2007, the number of Aboriginal children removed from
their families in the NT has almost doubled and two-thirds
of those removed are placed with non-Aboriginal families.
This reality has led Aboriginal elders to condemn Giles’
statements and call for more support for Aboriginal families."
By Peter Robson
* ABC INDIGENOUS:
CHIEF MAGISTRATE SAYS NT'S CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT IS FAILING
- News
ABC Indigenous:
Chief magistrate says NT's child protection department is failing
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
25 May 13: "The Northern Territory's chief magistrate says
the child protection department is failing to categorise
Aboriginal children at risk because of a lack of services.
Hilary Hannam says the NT's Office of Children and Families
will "only very rarely conclude there are risks" to a child
or that they need protection, especially when they are from
an Aboriginal community. She said the "department's
reluctance to become involved is unclear" and there may be
"subtle pressure" on child protection workers "to conclude
that a child is not in need of protection where services
are not available"." By Phoebe Stewart
Australian:
Northern Territory agency battles with child-neglect cases
http://www.theaustralian.com.
22 May 13: "CASES of child neglect are falling through the
cracks as the Northern Territory's under-resourced child
protection agency bounces between crises. Sometimes the
agency is doing more harm than good, its incoming head has
warned." Amos Aikman, Northern correspondent
* NORTHERN TERRITORY (NT) FORCED ABORIGINAL ADOPTION MEDIA COVERAGE
- Compilations
Respect and Listen: Keeping Them Home: Media Coverage
[scroll down page] http://www.respectandlisten.
WGAR News: Keeping them Home - What have we learnt from Bringing them Home?:
ACM Sydney (23 May 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/
WGAR News: Indigenous adoption push prompts Stolen Generation fears:
ABC Radio Australia Video (18 May 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/
- Audio
The World Today:
NT Govt to strengthen long term child protection orders
http://www.abc.net.au/
22 May 13: "The Northern Territory's Child Protection
Minister says her Government is redrafting laws to increase
stability for vulnerable children in long-term foster care.
Last week the Northern Territory's Chief Minister Adam
Giles suggested it was time to increase permanent adoptions
for children in long-term foster care. He said successive
governments had failed to protect Aboriginal children by
not removing them from abusive and neglectful situation,
for fear of creating another Stolen Generation. But the
Child Protection Minister says forced adoptions is not on
the table."
- News
ABC Indigenous:
Care options call to protect Aboriginal children
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
23 May 13: "A child psychiatrist from the Menzies School of
Health Research says alternative long-term care options are
necessary to protect vulnerable Aboriginal children. The
Northern Territory Government has flagged allowing the
adoption of Indigenous children who are subject to
long-term neglect or abuse. Dr Sarah Mares of the Menzies
School of Health Research delivered a talk in Alice
Sporings yesterday on the damage trauma does to children's
development. She says all children need stable and loving
homes to reach their full potential."
newsTracker: Elder slams NT forced adoption plan
http://tracker.org.au/2013/05/
21 May 13: "NATIONAL: An Indigenous elder is pleading with
Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles to scrap plans
to address Aboriginal child neglect via forced adoptions.
Mr Giles has warned that Aboriginal children are being left
with neglectful parents for fear of creating another stolen
generation. ... But in a letter obtained by AAP, elder
Djiniyini Gondarra, who represents 8000 Yolngu people of
east Arnhem Land, urges Mr Giles to have a rethink.
"We vehemently oppose your proposed policy to take away our
children and give them up for adoption," Dr Gondarra writes."
* BACKGROUND TO THE STOLEN GENERATIONS AND
THE BRINGING THEM HOME REPORT
- Compilation
Respect and Listen: Keeping Them Home: Background Information
[scroll down page] http://www.respectandlisten.
- Analysis / Opinion
lara (author-blogger):
Some things never change: more Stolen Generations
http://larahentz.wordpress.
23 May 13: "As a Native American who has experienced
upheaval and survived my own closed adoption, the
devastating loss of my culture and my language cannot be
overstated as a loss to me, to my family and to other
adoptees I know who endured it. This media release struck
me that some things never change, either in the US or in
Australia. If we do not teach this history, we are doomed
to repeat it - over and over. Poverty is the worst form of
violence and the Third World and Indian Country is still
suffering the effects, generation after generation...
Trace/Lara"
Stolen Generations: The invention of the Stolen Generations
http://www.stolengenerations.
"IN 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
made the most notorious accusation ever directed by a
government body against Australia. It accused this country
of committing genocide against the Aborigines by stealing
their children. According to the commission’s report,
Bringing Them Home, state officials ripped from the arms of
loving parents several generations of Aboriginal children
in order to raise them in institutions or with white
families."
Brisbane Blacks Monthly: The New Stolen Generations
http://brisbaneblacksmonthly.
October 2012: "Tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander children were forcibly removed from their
families between 1869 and the 1970s, with the 1997 Bringing
Them Home report estimating that "between one in three and
one in ten" were stolen and made wards of the state. In
2008, then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a
formal apology to the Stolen Generations "for the laws and
policies of successive Parliaments and governments that
have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss" on the
nation’s Indigenous people."
By Callum Clayton-Dixon, Anaywan Nation
* BACKGROUND TO CHILD PROTECTION AND OUT-OF-HOME CARE
- Consultation
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and
Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA):
National Standards for Out of Home Care - Consultation Paper
http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/our-
- Research
Information concerning Australia and the
Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/
NTCOSS Submission to the Inquiry into the
Child Protection System in the Northern Territory 2010
http://www.ntcoss.org.au/
Adoption and Forgotten Australians
http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/
'Getting the big picture':
A synopsis and critique of Australian out-of-home care research
- Leah Bromfield and Alexandra Osborn
http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/
The mental health care needs of children in out-of-home care:
A report from the expert working committee of the
Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
http://www.ranzcp.org/Files/
Experiencing Out-of-Home Care in Australia:
The Views of Children and Young People
- By Dr Joseph J. McDowall
http://www.nwhn.net.au/admin/
Do Not Damage and Disturb:
On Child Protection Failures and the Pressure on Out of Home Care in Australia
- Jeremy Sammut
http://www.cis.org.au/images/
CIS Policy Monograph 122 - 2011: The Centre for Independent Studies
Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse:
Permanency planning and adoption of children in out-of-home care.
http://
Aboriginal Child Abuse the Royal Commission Cannot Avoid
- Tony Thomas
http://www.quadrant.org.au/
- Background
SAF,T: Our Kids, Our Way program
http://www.saft.org.au/carers
Child protection and wellbeing
http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.
Child protection and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/
The Inquiry into the Child Protection System in the Northern Territory:
http://www.
Australian Bureau of Statistics:
Child protection
http://www.abs.gov.au/
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW):
Child protection
http://www.aihw.gov.au/child-
http://www.aihw.gov.au/
Child protection and youth justice services
http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/
Protection and support services
http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/
Reporting abuse and neglect:
State and territory departments responsible for protecting children
http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/
Their needs:
appropriate service models for vulnerable children, young people and families
http://www.cfecfw.asn.au/
* BEYOND NUCLEAR INITIATIVE:
SIX YEARS AND STILL STANDING STRONG:
NT TRADE UNIONS JOIN TRADITIONAL OWNERS
TO PROTEST MUCKATY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP
- News
Beyond Nuclear Initiative:
Six years and still standing strong:
NT trade unions join Traditional Owners
to protest Muckaty radioactive waste dump
http://
25 May 13: "NT Union members will join Traditional Owners
and supporters from across the Territory in Tennant Creek
this weekend for a rally against the proposed national
radioactive waste dump at Muckaty in the Northern Territory.
The rally and concert will mark exactly six years since the
Northern Land Council voted to nominate the site. In May
2012 the Australian Council of Trades Unions National
Congress unanimously voted to support the Muckaty campaign.
Bryan Wilkins, NT Organiser for the Australian
Manufacturing Workers Union said, "NT Unions are standing
in solidarity with Traditional Owners and communities ... ""
* BACKGROUND TO THE PROPOSED MUCKATY NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP:
Last updated: 11 May 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/
* ABC INDIGENOUS:
NT INDIGENOUS DEATHS IN CUSTODY WORST IN NATION
- Video
ABC Indigenous: NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nation
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
24 May 13: "Source: 7pm TV News NT"
* BACKGROUND TO JUSTICE REINVESTMENT,
ABORIGINAL IMPRISONMENT AND
DEATHS IN CUSTODY:
Last updated: 15 May 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/
* CAAMA:
NAAJA CEO PRISCILLA COLLINS
ON THE ALCOHOL PROTECTION ORDER SCHEME
- Audio Interview
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association:
NAAJA CEO Priscilla Collins on The Alcohol Protection Order Scheme
http://caama.com.au/ceo-of-
14 May 13: "The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
(NAAJA) CEO Priscilla Collins talks to Lorena Walker about
the APO and the supply of Alcohol."
* APO NT:
ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS
- Analysis / Opinion
Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory (APO NT):
Alcohol and Other Drugs
"The Northern Territory has the second highest alcohol
consumption in the world. Misuse of alcohol has devastating
health and social consequences for NT Aboriginal
communities. APO NT believes that addressing alcohol and
drug misuse, along with the many health and social
consequences of this misuse, can only be achieved through
a multi-tiered approach.
APO NT supports evidence based alcohol policy reform,
including:
* Supply reduction measures
* Harm reduction measures, and
* Demand reduction measures
To address alcohol and drug misuse within Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander communities, social and structural
determinants of mental health must be addressed."
APO NT Membership
http://apont.org.au/index.php/
"Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory (APO NT)
is an alliance comprising the
Central Land Council (CLC),
Northern Land Council (NLC),
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA),
Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (CAALAS)
and the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT (AMSANT).
The alliance was created to provide a more effective
response to key issues of joint interest and concern
affecting Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory,
including through advocating practical policy solutions
to government."
* ABC:
NEW ALCOHOL POWERS FOR POLICE
- Video
ABC: New alcohol powers for police
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
10 May 13: "The Deputy Chief Minister David Tollner
outlines new alcohol protection orders to ban some alleged
criminals from drinking."
* ABC:
GROG CULTURE DEFENDED AS 'CORE SOCIAL VALUE'
- News
ABC: Grog culture defended as 'core social value'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
24 May 13: "Chief Minister Adam Giles has defended the
Northern Territory's drinking culture as a "core social
value". Speaking at an Australian Hotels Association (AHA)
annual awards dinner in Darwin last night, Mr Giles said
the tradition of "having a coldie" in a pub should be
"enshrined" as part of Territory life. "This is our
lifestyle, this is the way we live," he said. Mr Giles
said the Government would do its best to support the liquor
industry." By Kristy O'Brien
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- Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families
Special Sorry Day Edition
http://www.nsdc.org.au
"National Sorry Day offers the Community the opportunity
to acknowledge the impact of the policies spanning more
than 150 years of forcible removal of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander children from their families."
Newsletter date: Sorry Day - 26 May 2013
This newsletter: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/
Contents:
* Petition: Keeping Them Home - Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews renowned journalist Jeff McMullen about child removals and the importance of families
* Jeff McMullen, Respect and Listen: The Future of the Family (giving context to the suicide and child removal issues)
* SNAICC News: Keeping Them Home - Elder Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, calls for this trend to be reversed
* Peter Robson, Green Left: NT government risks new stolen generation
* ABC Indigenous: Chief magistrate says NT's child protection department is failing
* Northern Territory (NT) Forced Aboriginal Adoption Media Coverage
* Background to the Stolen Generations and the Bringing Them Home report
* Background to Child Protection and Out-of-home care
* Beyond Nuclear Initiative: Six years and still standing strong: NT trade unions join Traditional Owners to protest Muckaty radioactive waste dump
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* ABC Indigenous: NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nation
* Background to Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody
* CAAMA: NAAJA CEO Priscilla Collins on The Alcohol Protection Order Scheme
* APO NT: Alcohol and Other Drugs
* ABC: New alcohol powers for police
* ABC: Grog culture defended as 'core social value'
* PETITION:
KEEPING THEM HOME:
STOP THE FORCED REMOVAL OF ABORIGINAL CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES
- Petition
Change.org Petition: Keeping Them Home
- Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families
Petitioning Adam Giles
Petition by Stand For Freedom
http://www.change.org/en-AU/
"40 years ago the Stolen Generation happened on our watch.
5 years ago the Nation apologised for it.
Now, forced child removal is happening again on our watch."
"Please read the petition letter to the Chief Minister Adam
Giles, initiated by the Keeping Them Home campaign by
'concerned Australians', and lend your voice to this
important cause."
- Campaign
Keeping Them Home
'concerned Australians': http://www.
Respect and Listen: http://www.respectandlisten.
* LET'S TALK'S TIGA BAYLES INTERVIEWS RENOWNED JOURNALIST JEFF MCMULLEN
ABOUT CHILD REMOVALS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILIES
- Audio Interview
Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane:
Let's Talk - Jeff McMullen
http://www.989fm.com.au/
17 May 13: "Jeff McMullen, Honorary CEO of the Ian Thorpe’s
Foundation For Youth and renowned Journalist."
Listen to this interview on-line:
http://www.989fm.com.au/
* JEFF MCMULLEN, RESPECT AND LISTEN:
THE FUTURE OF THE FAMILY
- Analysis / Opinion
Respect and Listen: The Future of the Family - Jeff McMullen
http://www.respectandlisten.
13 Mar 13: "Many Elders have told me that the family
counselling efforts trialled in Central Australia tap into
traditional approaches for alleviating social crisis by
involving members of the extended family and community
services to discuss how to improve the safety and
well-being of the child. This approach can reduce the
removal of children from family and we should be supporting
the local efforts vigorously." By Jeff McMullen
* SNAICC NEWS:
KEEPING THEM HOME:
ELDER REV DR DJINIYINI GONDARRA, CALLS FOR THIS TREND TO BE REVERSED
- News
SNAICC News: Keeping Them Home
- Elder Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, calls for this trend to be reversed
http://www.snaicc.org.au/news-
23 May 13: "The most recent data shows that the number of
children being moved into out-of-home care in the Northern
Territory has just about doubled since 2007. Two-thirds of
these children are being placed with non-Indigenous
families away from their communities. Elder Rev Dr
Djiniyini Gondarra, as spokesperson for Yolngu Makarr Dhuni
calls for this trend to be reversed by increasing family
support services in communities. He has written to the Chief
Minister of the Northern Territory, Adam Giles, asking him
for his support."
* PETER ROBSON, GREEN LEFT:
NT GOVERNMENT RISKS NEW STOLEN GENERATION
- News
Green Left: NT government risks new stolen generation
http://www.greenleft.org.au/
25 May 13: "Australia’s first Aboriginal parliamentary
leader, Adam Giles, announced on May 13 that his government
would increase the number of Aboriginal children removed
from their families. Concerns that a new stolen generation
could be created were putting children at risk, he said. ...
Since 2007, the number of Aboriginal children removed from
their families in the NT has almost doubled and two-thirds
of those removed are placed with non-Aboriginal families.
This reality has led Aboriginal elders to condemn Giles’
statements and call for more support for Aboriginal families."
By Peter Robson
* ABC INDIGENOUS:
CHIEF MAGISTRATE SAYS NT'S CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT IS FAILING
- News
ABC Indigenous:
Chief magistrate says NT's child protection department is failing
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
25 May 13: "The Northern Territory's chief magistrate says
the child protection department is failing to categorise
Aboriginal children at risk because of a lack of services.
Hilary Hannam says the NT's Office of Children and Families
will "only very rarely conclude there are risks" to a child
or that they need protection, especially when they are from
an Aboriginal community. She said the "department's
reluctance to become involved is unclear" and there may be
"subtle pressure" on child protection workers "to conclude
that a child is not in need of protection where services
are not available"." By Phoebe Stewart
Australian:
Northern Territory agency battles with child-neglect cases
http://www.theaustralian.com.
22 May 13: "CASES of child neglect are falling through the
cracks as the Northern Territory's under-resourced child
protection agency bounces between crises. Sometimes the
agency is doing more harm than good, its incoming head has
warned." Amos Aikman, Northern correspondent
* NORTHERN TERRITORY (NT) FORCED ABORIGINAL ADOPTION MEDIA COVERAGE
- Compilations
Respect and Listen: Keeping Them Home: Media Coverage
[scroll down page] http://www.respectandlisten.
WGAR News: Keeping them Home - What have we learnt from Bringing them Home?:
ACM Sydney (23 May 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/
WGAR News: Indigenous adoption push prompts Stolen Generation fears:
ABC Radio Australia Video (18 May 13)
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/
- Audio
The World Today:
NT Govt to strengthen long term child protection orders
http://www.abc.net.au/
22 May 13: "The Northern Territory's Child Protection
Minister says her Government is redrafting laws to increase
stability for vulnerable children in long-term foster care.
Last week the Northern Territory's Chief Minister Adam
Giles suggested it was time to increase permanent adoptions
for children in long-term foster care. He said successive
governments had failed to protect Aboriginal children by
not removing them from abusive and neglectful situation,
for fear of creating another Stolen Generation. But the
Child Protection Minister says forced adoptions is not on
the table."
- News
ABC Indigenous:
Care options call to protect Aboriginal children
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
23 May 13: "A child psychiatrist from the Menzies School of
Health Research says alternative long-term care options are
necessary to protect vulnerable Aboriginal children. The
Northern Territory Government has flagged allowing the
adoption of Indigenous children who are subject to
long-term neglect or abuse. Dr Sarah Mares of the Menzies
School of Health Research delivered a talk in Alice
Sporings yesterday on the damage trauma does to children's
development. She says all children need stable and loving
homes to reach their full potential."
newsTracker: Elder slams NT forced adoption plan
http://tracker.org.au/2013/05/
21 May 13: "NATIONAL: An Indigenous elder is pleading with
Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles to scrap plans
to address Aboriginal child neglect via forced adoptions.
Mr Giles has warned that Aboriginal children are being left
with neglectful parents for fear of creating another stolen
generation. ... But in a letter obtained by AAP, elder
Djiniyini Gondarra, who represents 8000 Yolngu people of
east Arnhem Land, urges Mr Giles to have a rethink.
"We vehemently oppose your proposed policy to take away our
children and give them up for adoption," Dr Gondarra writes."
* BACKGROUND TO THE STOLEN GENERATIONS AND
THE BRINGING THEM HOME REPORT
- Compilation
Respect and Listen: Keeping Them Home: Background Information
[scroll down page] http://www.respectandlisten.
- Analysis / Opinion
lara (author-blogger):
Some things never change: more Stolen Generations
http://larahentz.wordpress.
23 May 13: "As a Native American who has experienced
upheaval and survived my own closed adoption, the
devastating loss of my culture and my language cannot be
overstated as a loss to me, to my family and to other
adoptees I know who endured it. This media release struck
me that some things never change, either in the US or in
Australia. If we do not teach this history, we are doomed
to repeat it - over and over. Poverty is the worst form of
violence and the Third World and Indian Country is still
suffering the effects, generation after generation...
Trace/Lara"
Stolen Generations: The invention of the Stolen Generations
http://www.stolengenerations.
"IN 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
made the most notorious accusation ever directed by a
government body against Australia. It accused this country
of committing genocide against the Aborigines by stealing
their children. According to the commission’s report,
Bringing Them Home, state officials ripped from the arms of
loving parents several generations of Aboriginal children
in order to raise them in institutions or with white
families."
Brisbane Blacks Monthly: The New Stolen Generations
http://brisbaneblacksmonthly.
October 2012: "Tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander children were forcibly removed from their
families between 1869 and the 1970s, with the 1997 Bringing
Them Home report estimating that "between one in three and
one in ten" were stolen and made wards of the state. In
2008, then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a
formal apology to the Stolen Generations "for the laws and
policies of successive Parliaments and governments that
have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss" on the
nation’s Indigenous people."
By Callum Clayton-Dixon, Anaywan Nation
* BACKGROUND TO CHILD PROTECTION AND OUT-OF-HOME CARE
- Consultation
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and
Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA):
National Standards for Out of Home Care - Consultation Paper
http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/our-
- Research
Information concerning Australia and the
Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/
NTCOSS Submission to the Inquiry into the
Child Protection System in the Northern Territory 2010
http://www.ntcoss.org.au/
Adoption and Forgotten Australians
http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/
'Getting the big picture':
A synopsis and critique of Australian out-of-home care research
- Leah Bromfield and Alexandra Osborn
http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/
The mental health care needs of children in out-of-home care:
A report from the expert working committee of the
Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
http://www.ranzcp.org/Files/
Experiencing Out-of-Home Care in Australia:
The Views of Children and Young People
- By Dr Joseph J. McDowall
http://www.nwhn.net.au/admin/
Do Not Damage and Disturb:
On Child Protection Failures and the Pressure on Out of Home Care in Australia
- Jeremy Sammut
http://www.cis.org.au/images/
CIS Policy Monograph 122 - 2011: The Centre for Independent Studies
Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse:
Permanency planning and adoption of children in out-of-home care.
http://
Aboriginal Child Abuse the Royal Commission Cannot Avoid
- Tony Thomas
http://www.quadrant.org.au/
- Background
SAF,T: Our Kids, Our Way program
http://www.saft.org.au/carers
Child protection and wellbeing
http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.
Child protection and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/
The Inquiry into the Child Protection System in the Northern Territory:
http://www.
Australian Bureau of Statistics:
Child protection
http://www.abs.gov.au/
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW):
Child protection
http://www.aihw.gov.au/child-
http://www.aihw.gov.au/
Child protection and youth justice services
http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/
Protection and support services
http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/
Reporting abuse and neglect:
State and territory departments responsible for protecting children
http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/
Their needs:
appropriate service models for vulnerable children, young people and families
http://www.cfecfw.asn.au/
* BEYOND NUCLEAR INITIATIVE:
SIX YEARS AND STILL STANDING STRONG:
NT TRADE UNIONS JOIN TRADITIONAL OWNERS
TO PROTEST MUCKATY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP
- News
Beyond Nuclear Initiative:
Six years and still standing strong:
NT trade unions join Traditional Owners
to protest Muckaty radioactive waste dump
http://
25 May 13: "NT Union members will join Traditional Owners
and supporters from across the Territory in Tennant Creek
this weekend for a rally against the proposed national
radioactive waste dump at Muckaty in the Northern Territory.
The rally and concert will mark exactly six years since the
Northern Land Council voted to nominate the site. In May
2012 the Australian Council of Trades Unions National
Congress unanimously voted to support the Muckaty campaign.
Bryan Wilkins, NT Organiser for the Australian
Manufacturing Workers Union said, "NT Unions are standing
in solidarity with Traditional Owners and communities ... ""
* BACKGROUND TO THE PROPOSED MUCKATY NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP:
Last updated: 11 May 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/
* ABC INDIGENOUS:
NT INDIGENOUS DEATHS IN CUSTODY WORST IN NATION
- Video
ABC Indigenous: NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nation
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
24 May 13: "Source: 7pm TV News NT"
* BACKGROUND TO JUSTICE REINVESTMENT,
ABORIGINAL IMPRISONMENT AND
DEATHS IN CUSTODY:
Last updated: 15 May 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/
* CAAMA:
NAAJA CEO PRISCILLA COLLINS
ON THE ALCOHOL PROTECTION ORDER SCHEME
- Audio Interview
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association:
NAAJA CEO Priscilla Collins on The Alcohol Protection Order Scheme
http://caama.com.au/ceo-of-
14 May 13: "The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
(NAAJA) CEO Priscilla Collins talks to Lorena Walker about
the APO and the supply of Alcohol."
* APO NT:
ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS
- Analysis / Opinion
Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory (APO NT):
Alcohol and Other Drugs
"The Northern Territory has the second highest alcohol
consumption in the world. Misuse of alcohol has devastating
health and social consequences for NT Aboriginal
communities. APO NT believes that addressing alcohol and
drug misuse, along with the many health and social
consequences of this misuse, can only be achieved through
a multi-tiered approach.
APO NT supports evidence based alcohol policy reform,
including:
* Supply reduction measures
* Harm reduction measures, and
* Demand reduction measures
To address alcohol and drug misuse within Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander communities, social and structural
determinants of mental health must be addressed."
APO NT Membership
http://apont.org.au/index.php/
"Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory (APO NT)
is an alliance comprising the
Central Land Council (CLC),
Northern Land Council (NLC),
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA),
Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (CAALAS)
and the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the NT (AMSANT).
The alliance was created to provide a more effective
response to key issues of joint interest and concern
affecting Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory,
including through advocating practical policy solutions
to government."
* ABC:
NEW ALCOHOL POWERS FOR POLICE
- Video
ABC: New alcohol powers for police
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
10 May 13: "The Deputy Chief Minister David Tollner
outlines new alcohol protection orders to ban some alleged
criminals from drinking."
* ABC:
GROG CULTURE DEFENDED AS 'CORE SOCIAL VALUE'
- News
ABC: Grog culture defended as 'core social value'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
24 May 13: "Chief Minister Adam Giles has defended the
Northern Territory's drinking culture as a "core social
value". Speaking at an Australian Hotels Association (AHA)
annual awards dinner in Darwin last night, Mr Giles said
the tradition of "having a coldie" in a pub should be
"enshrined" as part of Territory life. "This is our
lifestyle, this is the way we live," he said. Mr Giles
said the Government would do its best to support the liquor
industry." By Kristy O'Brien
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