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April 8, 2020

What governments can do about the increase in family violence due to coronavirus

Melissa O'Donnell, The University of Western Australia; Aron Shlonsky, Monash University; Ben Mathews, Queensland University of Technology; Fiona Arney, University of South Australia; Fiona Stanley, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Leah Bromfield, University of South Australia; Rhiannon Pilkington, University of Adelaide, and Rhonda Marriott, Murdoch University

Family violence issues are likely to be exacerbated by the COVID-10 pandemic. Lockdown can especially affect women and children who may wish to escape an abusive relationship or receive support.

Policies and services designed to protect Aboriginal children’s cultural connections are not being properly implemented. AAP Image/Dan Peled

November 8, 2016

Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal children in out‑of‑home care

Alwin Chong, University of South Australia and Fiona Arney, University of South Australia

New reports show a widespread lack of care for the cultural needs of many of the 19,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and out-of-home care.

Health staff, child protection workers and forensic specialists should already be collaborating to share information. altanaka/Shutterstock

April 22, 2015

A better system to protect subsequent kids of parents convicted of murder

Rosemaria Flaherty, University of South Australia and Fiona Arney, University of South Australia

Responses to high-risk pregnancy and high-risk infants across Australia are haphazard, and legislation alone will not correct the problem.

Many Indigenous families fear the welfare system. AAP Image/Neda Vanovac

October 30, 2014

Empowering Indigenous communities to prevent child abuse and neglect

Fiona Arney, University of South Australia and Alwin Chong, University of Adelaide

In some jurisdictions of Australia, the rate of Indigenous children in foster, kinship and residential care on any one night has reached almost one in ten. This rate is almost ten times higher than non-Aboriginal…

Five years on from the apology to the Stolen Generations, Aboriginal children are still in child protection at a disproportionate rate to the rest of the population. AAP/Kym Smith

February 13, 2013

Making the national apology count for Indigenous children

Fiona Arney, University of South Australia

Five years ago, Kevin Rudd made an apology to the Stolen Generations of this country for the wholesale practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families and the identity-shattering impacts this…

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