What’s in the best interest for Aboriginal kids at risk?
National figures suggest Indigenous children are being removed from their parents at a rate greater than any other time in recorded Australian history.
This week, we put them front and centre to have their say.
There are more than 15,000 indigenous kids in out-of-home care, and they are almost 10 times more likely to be in care than non-Indigenous children.
Some claim were at risk of repeating the experience of the Stolen Generations.
Others say that comparison isn't useful, and that the traumatic history has meant Aboriginal kids are too often being left in harms way out of fear of claims of racism.
Indigenous children are seven times more likely to be the subject of substantiated reports of abuse or neglect.
In this rere discussion, young Aboriginal adults who've been through care share their experiences with Insight and explain what they would've liked growing up, as well as what they want for their own kids.
