A collection of 8 posts
The murder of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby by repeat offender Jefferson Lewis has exposed the failures of Australia’s criminal justice system and Indigenous child protection policy. What will it take to make change?
How sex abuse has gone undetected inside Australia’s childcare sector.
The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.
The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.
Some lived experiences are selected and elevated over others.
Poverty is not the cause of abuse and neglect.
The field is mired in risible theory and impenetrable jargon, and increasingly divorced from concern with the welfare of children.
They are only tasked with getting to know a child and explaining what is in that child’s best interests.