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Ran Yi, Holly Doel-Mackaway, Indigenous Children’s Right to Participate in Law and Policy Development, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 16, Issue 2, July 2024, Pages 700–702, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huae006
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Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
— John F. Kennedy
Indigenous children and young people in Australia have been subjected to multiple acts of violence and discrimination sanctioned by the state by successive governments. Stunning statistics have revealed the extraordinarily high rates of Indigenous youth incarceration, 25 times higher than non-Indigenous youth. Indigenous children are ten times more likely than non-Indigenous children to be removed from their families through child protection systems. Overincarceration and torture of Aboriginal children in Northern Territory juvenile detention continue to shock the world. The removal of approximately 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families by state welfare bodies between 1910 and 1970, which was documented in the 1997 ‘Bringing Them Home Report’, was considered to be genocide. Moreover, Aboriginal children made up 100 per cent of those in detention in the Northern Territory in 2019.
