The inquiry was sparked by the ACT government's wrongful removal of five Aboriginal children from their mother in 2013. The case was settled in court early last year, ending the mother's five-year battle to have her children returned to her care.
Report shows improvements to state’s child protection system
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- Category: Child Protection Queensland media and newspaper articles
- Created: Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:00
- Written by Di Farmer - The DIShonourable Minister for Child Safety Queensland
Minister for Child Safety, Youth and Women and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence
The Honourable Di Farmer
[This is the same woman who sat idly by as the Watter Twins were sent back to live with the man they identified as their rapist. The same woman who ignored the pleas and the testimony of Australia’s most prominent child sexual abuse expert, Professor Freda Briggs and blocked the emails of other advocates who were desperately trying to have the voices of two innocent children who were being regularly brutally assaulted in the “care” of their father - whom was awarded full-time custody of these kids after their continued disclosures of sexual assaults went unheard by all those tasked with protecting them from harm. And you really think this thing could actually accomplish any positive changes, when she couldn’t even protect two kids let alone ten thousand.]
Queensland’s child protection reform program is seeing results with the latest Report on Government Services (RoGs) showing encouraging signs that Queensland’s reforms are working.
Secret files show DoCS visits to at-risk kids have decreased
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- Category: Child Protection NSW media and newspaper articles
- Created: Sunday, 09 January 2011 11:53
- Written by The Sunday Telegraph