‘Great shame’: Daniel Andrews highlights ‘injustice’ over Indigenous children in care and justice system
Daniel Andrews has expressed his government’s “great shame” regarding the overrepresentation of First Nations children in Victoria’s child protection and criminal justice systems, saying racism and injustice need to be “confronted and addressed”.
In a statement representing the strongest language the premier has used about the removal of Indigenous children from Victorian families, Andrews acknowledged that discrimination against First Nations people persisted today. “The ongoing over-representation of First Peoples in the criminal justice and child protection systems is a source of great shame for the Victorian government,” he wrote in the letter to Eleanor Bourke, the chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission, which is conducting a nation-leading truth-telling inquiry.Andrews said his government acknowledged the injustices that had caused the overrepresentation.
“It [the government] is also responsible for ensuring that racism and injustice are confronted and addressed,” he said.
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