Patton’s apology to the Stolen Generations is just the beginning — we continue to fail kids in care.
We are repeating the past harm and horror of treatment of children in institutional care, today.
Nowhere is this more apparent than with respect to Aboriginal children.
As we talk about truth telling, but as the State Government stalls on accepting and implementing all recommendations of the Yoorook Commission of Inquiry into child protection and the criminal justice system, Aboriginal children are being removed from their family at alarming rates.