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“In short: Ninety-one children known to child protection services died in the last financial year in Queensland, up 59.6 per cent from the previous year.”

“In short: Aboriginal elders want a royal commission into child protection failures in Western Australia's north.”

“Up until the late 1960s, the welfare board previously named the Aborigines Protection Board, controlled the lives and affairs of Aboriginal people in NSW by enforcing policies of segregation, assimilation, child removal and wage withholding.”

“Dorothy Papertalk says many of the systemic failures persist today, as exemplified in reports this week that more than a dozen children were left unsupervised in a home on her street.”