Coalition senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has called for the federal government to take responsibility for child protection in Australia, alleging Northern Territory bureaucrats are failing vulnerable children.
has called for the federal government to take responsibility for child protection in Australia, alleging Northern Territory bureaucrats have handed vulnerable children back to their abusers in the top end.
“I’m talking about foster carers who are also Indigenous, who have come to me with these grave concerns. So, this is why we need a royal commission into the sexual abuse of Indigenous children.” “We need to say that children who are living in circumstances where their human rights are being upheld should not be removed for the sake of putting children back with kin.”
NT Minister for the Prevention of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Kate Worden said the claims were unfounded.
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