First Nations children are still being removed from their families at rates that are persistently and staggeringly disproportionate. In 2023-24, First Nations children were 12 times more likely than non-Indigenous children to be in out-of-home care.
Government neglect and discriminatory intervention are driving this reality.
Under the guise of care, governments are not providing families with the support they need to thrive, then punishing them for the structural disadvantages the State itself created.
We cannot support a system that does not provide safe housing, income stability, health services, culturally safe maternal care, disability supports, and therapeutic assistance to the families and children in the first place. These are the very things that allow families to stay together and thrive.
