This research explored reasons for the lower recorded rates of child abuse and neglect and child removal for Indigenous in the Northern Territory. Regrettably, the research found that the child protection system in the Northern Territory is seriously failing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families. The report includes a series of reform...

First published in 1997, this report has formed the basis for the Australian Government's 2008 apology to the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal people taken from their families.