The scope of the Royal Commission called in the wake of the Don Dale scandal has thankfully been widened to include the crucial issue of child protection. The failure by child protection services – in both the Territory and nationwide – to properly protect Aboriginal children is one of the root causes of the life-long disadvantage suffered by indigenous Australians, and our on-going national failure to ‘close the gap’ in social outcomes.
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