Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  (i) 26 May 2017 marks the 20 year anniversary of the historic report, Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, and

  (ii) 26 May is Sorry Day, a day to acknowledge and recognise members of the stolen generations;

(b) acknowledges:

  (i) the ongoing impacts of the intergenerational effects on the stolen generations and their families,

  (ii) that a disproportionate number of Aboriginal children are still in out-of-home care,

  (iii) that the 2016 report of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC), Family Matters, found that:

(A) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are almost 10 times more likely to be removed by child protection authorities than non-Indigenous children, and

(B) the population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children removed by the child protection system is likely to triple by 2035, and

  (iv) children in out-of-home care experience poor outcomes on a range of indicators; and

(c) calls on state, territory and Commonwealth governments, as a matter of urgency, to implement the recommendations contained in the report of SNAICC.