Available national statistics and research are used to briefly outline what is known about child abuse in Indigenous communities and its causes.

Child abuse and neglect associated with Indigenous communities cannot be understood, nor addressed, unless it is viewed from a broad perspective which includes both historical and present day issues. Janet Stanley, Adam M. Tomison and Julian Pocock argue that measures centred on community-based responses which empower Indigenous Australians are needed, in order to protect Indigenous...

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...