By: pol_pak
22/08/2009
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The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197 ,25964264-601,00.html
The new stolen generation
Caroline Overington
August 22, 2009
WELFARE workers have swooped on the opal mining town of Lightning Ridge in northwest NSW, removing more than 40 Aboriginal children from decrepit homes in shanty towns.
Those removed included a four-day-old baby who had barely learned to suckle when taken from his mother's breast, while she was still in the local hospital, recovering from giving birth.
Aboriginal women, stunned by the removals, say it amounts to a "modern-day Stolen Generation", but the most recent statistics on child removals show Aboriginal children are being taken from their parents in numbers much greater than the Stolen Generations.
Official figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show there are now more than 9000 indigenous children in state care -- a figure that far outstrips the number that were taken in the 1920s and 30s.
Both NSW, with 4316, and Queensland, with 2085, have this year set records for the number of indigenous children taken from their parents.
In both states, Aboriginal children are being taken at 10 times the rate of white children.
Nationwide, Aboriginal children comprise just 4.4 per cent of all children, and yet make up 24 per cent of all children in care.
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Comment: Appears intervention activity is NOT just in the NT, much still being done for reasons similar to previous generations. |
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By: dallone.ranger
22/08/2009
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| Many will try and find apologetic reasons to account for this. The truth will continue to elude them. |
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By: pol_pak
23/08/2009
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What many misunderstand is if not for the color coding, many of these children would have been grabbed earlier.
That welfare gets it wrong - with or without the color code, is another novel...
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By: pol_pak
7/11/2009
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Failed system leaves children at risk
* Lex Hall
* From: The Australian
* November 07, 2009 12:00AM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/failed -system-leaves-children-at-risk/story-e6frg6nf-122 5795218358
TWO years after the federal intervention in remote indigenous communities, the Northern Territory child protection system is in deepening disarray.
The Territory's senior paediatrician Paul Bauert warns more cases of abuse and neglect will emerge and says a full inquiry is urgently needed.
"Our calls have gone unheeded for many, many months," Bauert tells Inquirer. "We should not be seeing the cases we've been seeing recently. I'm quite sure there are many more cases to come out."
The latest disclosures all leaked by insiders include the case of a baby released into care of a family member despite serious concerns about the orphan's wellbeing. The baby later presented with broken legs and bleeding on the brain.
Another baby was released into the care of its homeless mother despite concerns being raised
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By: joe.king9
12/11/2009
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"Official figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show there are now more than 9000 indigenous children in state care -- a figure that far outstrips the number that were taken in the 1920s and 30s."
False official records from that period were common as they are today. The white man does not want the truth to be reavealed to the world about the atrocities he inflicted on Aboriginal people.
The words Reconciliation and Sorry leave a bad taste in the mouths of white australia. |
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By: dallone.ranger
12/11/2009
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Well JoKing, again you have shown yourself to be a fool. Are you a child?
As for the word Sorry, what a croc. There is not now and never was any reason to say sorry for saving part Aboriginal part white kids lives. |
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By: pol_pak
26/11/2009
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Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin's radical move to extend income management to all welfare recipients in the Northern Territory is in part a recognition that child safety in the NT is far from satisfactory.
A crucial decision in the Federal Court today will decide whether the Federal Government can proceed and take over the Alice Springs town camps.
Jenny Macklin has a Crime Commission report on her desk that has not been released to the public.
It is believed to show that conditions for children in some NT Aboriginal communities are still far from satisfactory, and in fact, they remain in an egregious state.
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COMMENT: is a long article, you need go read it all:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/26/2753 970.htm
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By: pol_pak
26/11/2009
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..a bit more from the article:
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Roll out
The expansion of the welfare quarantining scheme will start to roll out next July. There will be exemptions including those on veterans, aged and disability pensions.
People will be able to apply for individual exemptions.
There are four key classes of recipient which will be targeted for compulsory income management:
* People aged 15 to 24 who have been in receipt of specified welfare payments for more than three of the last six months
* People aged 25 and above on specified welfare payments such as Newstart Allowance and Parenting Payment for more than one year in the last two years
* People referred for income management by child protection authorities
* People assessed by Centrelink social workers as requiring income management due to vulnerability to financial crisis, domestic violence or economic abuse.
The final category could also include the elderly or disabled.
Those on the aged or disability pension could apply to have their income managed if they are "humbugged" or "threatened" by other people to hand over their welfare money.
There are some people in the Central Deserts region who would like to see income management extended to all of their cross-border region of the NT, South Australia, WA and Queensland.
They say large amounts of cannabis and other drugs are hurting communities despite all the Australian government monies going into new police stations and police housing under the COAG (Council of Australian Governments) national partnership.
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By: pol_pak
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Reference the inquest considering whether Department of Family and Children's Services fulfilled its duty to look after the 12 yr old girl who died's welfare, and if not, whether that contributed to her death.
IMHO the Inquest also should comment on whether ALL adults responsibilities when aware of these children's circumstances, were satisfied, with details of anywhere exist failings.
This not to single out any individual in the wider community, rather to clarify for all Adults in the NT just how far they should go in reporting issues...
IMHO FaCS needs present ONLINE to public their ongoing stats of reporting, then monthly ONLINE to public how they have resolved these reports, along with how many are NOT yet resolved - with how long each of these - and overall average, are requiring to be properly considered.
NOTE: such stats do NOT themselves require breach of privacy.
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