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Research Report 7 (1997) - The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle

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ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION Aboriginal People of New South Wales (AGPS, Canberra, 1990)

ABORIGINAL CHILD CARE AGENCY History and First Twelve Months of ACCA’s Operation (Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, Fitzroy, 1978)

ABORIGINAL LEGAL SERVICE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Telling our Story: A Report by the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (Inc) on the Removal of Aboriginal Children from their Families in Western Australia (Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (Inc), WA, 1995)

ABORIGINAL REVIEW COMMITTEE A Review of Substitute Care Services for Aboriginal People in New South Wales (Department of Community Services, NSW, September 1995)

ALSTON, P and BRENNAN, G (eds) The UN Children’s Convention and Australia (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Canberra, 1991)

ANGUS, G and GOLLEY, L Adoptions Australia 1994-95 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Child Welfare Series No 14, 1996)

ANGUS, G and GOLLEY, L Children under Care and Protection Orders Australia 1993-94 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Child Welfare Series No 12, AGPS, Canberra, 1995)

ANGUS, G and WILKINSON, K Adoptions Australia 1991-92 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Child Welfare Series No 4, 1994)

ARMITAGE, A Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand (UBC Press, Canada, 1995)

ATKINSON, G “Aboriginal Adoption: A Re-Evaluation” in SNOW, R (ed) Understanding Adoption: A Practical Guide (Fontana Books, Sydney, 1983) 156

ATKINSON, G J Report on the Joint National Review of Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agencies [AICCAs] (Report to the Ministers for Aged, Family and Health Services and Aboriginal Affairs, January 1991)

AUSTRALIA National Inquiry into Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families: Commonwealth Government Submission (October 1996)

AUSTRALIA - ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT Australia’s Report under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (December 1995)

AUSTRALIA - OFFICE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS Aboriginal Customary Laws: Report on Commonwealth Implementation of the Recommendations of the Australian Law Reform Commission (Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, AGPS, Canberra, 1994)

AUSTRALIA - WORKING PARTY OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF SOCIAL WELFARE ADMINISTRATORS Aboriginal Fostering and Adoption: Review of State and Territory Principles, Policies and Practices (October 1983)

AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey 1994: Detailed Findings (ABS Catalogue No 4190.0, AGPS, Canberra, 1995)

AUSTRALIAN LAW REFORM COMMISSION Aboriginal Customary Law: Child Custody, Fostering and Adoption (Research Paper 4, June 1982)

AUSTRALIAN LAW REFORM COMMISSION The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws (Report 31, 1986)

BAN, P “Customary ‘Adoption’ in Torres Strait Islander: Towards Legal Recognition” (1994) 3(66) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 8

BAN, P “Developments in the Legal Recognition of Torres Strait Islander Customary Adoption” (1996) in 3(78) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 14

BAN, P “The Quest for Legal Recognition of Torres Strait Islander Customary Adoption Practice” (1993) 2(60) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 4

BAN, P The Application of the Queensland Adoption Act 1964-1988 to the Traditional Adoption Practice of Torres Strait Islanders (Unpublished paper, 1988)

BAN, P The Tree of Life: Report to the Queensland Government on Legal Recognition of Torres Strait Islander Customary Adoption (prepared for the IINA Torres Strait Islander Corporation, Queensland, 1990)

BATH, H “Out-Of-Home Care in Australia: A State by State Comparison” (1994) 19(4) Children Australia 4

BELLEAR, L “Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Children: A Vision of Survival, a Dream with a Future” (1993) 18(1) Children Australia 29

BOSS, P, EDWARDS, S and PITMAN S Profile of Young Australians: Facts, Figures and Issues (Churchill Livingstone, Melbourne, 1995)

BRUNTON, R Black Suffering, White Guilt?: Aboriginal Disadvantage and the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody (Institute of Public Affairs, West Perth, 1993)

BUTI, T “They Took the Children Away” (1995) 20 Alternative Law Journal 35

BUTLER, B “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children: Present and Future Services and Policy” (1993) 18 Children Australia 4

BUTLER, B “Aboriginal Child Protection” in CALVERT, G, FORD, A and PARKINSON, P (eds) The Practice of Child Protection: Australian Approaches (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1992) 14

BUTLER, B “Aboriginal Children: Still in Terra Nullius” (1994) Vol 2(3) Rights Now 1

BUTLER, B “Aboriginal Children 1990 and the International Convention on the Rights of the Child” (1990) 15(2) Children Australia 15

BUTLER, B “Aboriginal Children: Back to Origins” (1993) 35 Family Matters 7

BUTLER, B “Adopting an Indigenous Approach” (1989) 13 Adoption and Fostering 27

BUTLER, B “Our Responsibility for Our Children’s Future”, Paper presented at the International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Conference (Wollongong, December 1993)

BUTLER, B “Words are not Enough” in HARVEY, J, DOLGOPOL, U and CASTELL-McGREGOR, S (eds) Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Australia (Proceedings of a National Seminar of the South Australian Children’s Interest Bureau, Adelaide, February 1992) 17

CHISHOLM, R “Aboriginal Children and the Placement Principle” (1988) 2(31) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 4

CHISHOLM, R “Aboriginal Children: Political Pawns or Paramount Consideration?” in JARRAH, J (ed) Child Welfare: Current Issues and Future Directions (Social Welfare Research Centre, University of NSW, Seminar, 6 July 1983) 43

CHISHOLM, R “Aboriginal Self-Determination and Child Welfare: A Case Conference” (1982) 17 Australian Journal of Social Issues 258

CHISHOLM, R “Child Care, Aboriginal Children and Permanency Planning: A Sceptical View” in OXENBERRY, R (ed) Changing Families: Proceedings of Third Australian Conference on Adoption (Adelaide, May 1982) 76

CHISHOLM, R “Destined Children: Aboriginal Child Welfare in Australia: Directions of Change in Law and Policy” (1985) 14 Aboriginal Law Bulletin 6; and continued in 15 Aboriginal Law Bulletin 7

CHISHOLM, R Black Children: White Welfare? Aboriginal Child Welfare Law and Policy in New South Wales (Social Welfare Research Centre, University of NSW, Reports and Proceedings No 52, April 1985)

CHOO, C Aboriginal Child Poverty (Child Poverty Review No 2, Brotherhood of St Lawrence, Melbourne, 1990)

D’SOUZA, N “Aboriginal Child Welfare: Framework for a National Policy” (1993) 35 Family Matters 40

D’SOUZA, N “Aboriginal Children: The Challenge for the End of the Millennium” (1990) 15(2) Children Australia 14

D’SOUZA, N “An Aboriginal and Islander Perspective” (1989) 14 Australian Journal of Early Childhood 31

D’SOUZA, N “Call for a National Inquiry into the Removal of Aboriginal Children” (1995) Impact April 1995 1

D’SOUZA, N “The Secretariat of the National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care” (1994) 18 Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal 27

EDWARDS, J, GREGORY, G and OAKLEY, D “Australian Children in Substitute Care” (1983) 8(1) Australian Child and Family Welfare 10

GILBERT, S “The Effects of Colonisation on Aboriginal Families: Issues and Strategies for Child Welfare Policies” in MASON, J (ed) Child Welfare Policy: Critical Australian Perspectives (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1993) 37

GODFREY, K “The Lost Kooris: A History of Aboriginal Child Welfare Policies in New South Wales” (1995) 20(1) Alternative Law Journal 26

GOLDSMITH, DJ “Individual v Collective Rights: The Indian Child Welfare Act” (1990) 13 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 1

GOODALL, H “Saving the Children” (1990) 2(44) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 6

HARRISON, J Report to the Child Protection Policy and Planning Unit South Australia on the Child Protection Project from the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council (South Australia, May 1991)

HEILPERN, S, HEILPERN, H, BOLT, S and CLANCY, A Evaluation of Departmental Services for Child Protection: Aboriginal Clients (Report prepared for the NSW Department of Community Services, June 1994)

JACKSON, B (ed) The First Aboriginal Child Survival Seminar (If Everyone Cared): A Report Arising from an International Seminar on Aboriginal Family Life and the Welfare of Aboriginal Children (Melbourne, 23-25 April 1979)

JOHNSTON, E Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody - National Report: Overview and Recommendations (AGPS, Canberra, 1991)

KENDALL, C “History, Present and Future: Issues Affecting Aboriginal Adults who were Removed as Children from their Families under the NSW Aborigines Protection Act 1883-1969” in Has Adoption A Future? Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Adoption Conference (Post Adoption Resource Centre, Sydney, 1995) 153

LARKIN, J “Torres Strait Totems” The Good Weekend Magazine (20 May 1995) 38

LOFGREN, N and KILDUFF, P “Genocide and the Australian Law “ (1994) 3(70) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 7

LOPATKA, A “The Rights of the Child are Universal: The Perspective of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” in FREEMAN, M and VEERMAN, P (eds) The Ideologies of Children’s Rights (International Studies in Human Rights, Volume 23, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Netherlands, 1992) 47

LUKE, G and CUNNEEN, C Aboriginal Over-Representation and Discretionary Decisions in the NSW Juvenile Justice System (Juvenile Justice Council of NSW, January 1995)

MASON, J and NOBLE-SPRUELL, C “Child Protection Policy in New South Wales: A Critical Analysis” in MASON, J (ed) Child Welfare Policy: Critical Australian Perspectives (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1993) 25

McCOTTER, D Children in Limbo: An Investigation into the Circumstances and Needs of Children in Long Term Care in Western Australia (Department for Community Services, Western Australia, 1981)

MERKEL, R “Government Culpability: For The Forced Removal of Aboriginal Children from their Families” (1990) 2(47) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 4

NICHOLSON, A “Indigenous Customary Law and Family Law”, address to the Indigenous Customary Law Forum (18 October 1995, Canberra)

NSW - ABORIGINAL CHILDREN’S RESEARCH PROJECT Aboriginal Children in Substitute Care (Principal Report, Part 1, July 1982)

NSW - ABORIGINAL CHILDREN’S RESEARCH PROJECT Identifying Aboriginal Children in Non-Aboriginal Substitute Care (Discussion Paper 5, July 1982)

NSW - ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION AND CARE COMMITTEE Improving Substitute Care in NSW: A Three Year Plan. (Department of Community Services, NSW, April 1993)

NSW - DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES Learning from the Past: Aboriginal Perspectives on the Effects and Implications of Welfare Policies and Practices on Aboriginal Families in NSW (Prepared by Gungil Jindibah Centre, 10 October 1994)

NSW - DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES Review of the Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987: Law and Policy in Child Protection (Discussion Paper 1, Legislation Review Unit, October 1996)

NSW - MINISTERIAL REVIEW COMMITTEE Review of Substitute Care Services in NSW: A Report to the Minister for Health and Community Services, the Hon John P Hannaford, MLC from the Committee Established to Review Substitute Care Services (Sydney, January 1992) (“the Usher Report”)

NSW - PARLIAMENT 1984-85, Review of Adoption Policy and Practice in New South Wales

NSW - SUBSTITUTE CARE IMPLEMENTATION UNIT Strategic Directions for Substitute Care Program (Department of Community Services, NSW, March 1996)

NEW SOUTH WALES LAW REFORM COMMISSION Review of the Adoption of Children Act 1965 (NSW) (Discussion Paper 34, 1994)

NEW SOUTH WALES LAW REFORM COMMISSION Review of the Adoption of Children Act 1965 (NSW) (Report 81, 1997)

NT - TERRITORY HEALTH SERVICES Northern Territory Government Interim Submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Inquiry into the Stolen Generation (Darwin, May 1996)

O’CONNOR, I The Impact of Queensland’s Family and Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Legislation, Policy and Practice on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families and Children (prepared for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Queensland, November 1990)

O’SHANE, P “Assimilation or Acculturation: Problems of Aboriginal Families” (1993) 14 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 196

ORRANTIA, R-M The Indian Child Welfare Act: A Handbook (USA, 1991)

PARBURY, N Survival: A History of Aboriginal Life in New South Wales (Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, NSW, 1986)

RANDALL, L “Aboriginal Placements” in OXENBERRY, R (ed) Changing Families: Proceedings of the Third Australian Conference on Adoption (Adelaide, May 1992) 342

READ, P “Changing Perceptions of the Black Past” (1990) February 1990 Australian Society 15

READ, P The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal Children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969 (NSW Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, Occasional Paper No 1, 1982)

REID, J and WOODGATE, L “Facing the Future: Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency and the Legacy of a Generation of Stolen Children” (1994) Winter 1994 Youth Issues Forum 28

REYNOLDS, H The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia (Penguin, Ringwood, Victoria, 1990)

SAM, M Through Black Eyes: A Handbook of Family Violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities (SNAICC, Victoria, 1991)

SECRETARIAT OF NATIONAL ABORIGINAL AND ISLANDER CHILD CARE “Child Abuse and Neglect from an Aboriginal Perspective: Paper to Sixth International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect” (1987) 3(2) Black Voices 25

SMITH, M Report on Visits to Koori Groups Across Western Division (Report to the Department of Community Services, Western Division, December 1993)

SOMMERLAD, E (ed) “Homes for Blacks: Aboriginal Community and Adoption” in PICTON, C (ed) Proceedings of First Australian Conference on Adoption (Sydney, 15-20 February 1976) 159

SA - DEPARTMENT FOR FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES Additional Considerations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children (Practice Paper, December, 1993)

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CHILD CARE AGENCY Adoption Policy and Practice in South Australia: ACCA Response to the Report of the Review Committee (South Australian Aboriginal Child Care Agency Forum Inc, North Adelaide, November 1986)

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CHILD CARE AGENCY Identity and Belonging in Aboriginal Foster Care: A Study of Aboriginal Children in Long Term Foster Care, Their Foster Families and Natural Families (SA Aboriginal Child Care Agency Forum Inc, Adelaide, 1988)

THORPE, D Evaluating Child Protection (Open University Press, Great Britain, 1994)

TREGEAGLE, S and VOIGT, L “Substitute Care and the Law: Improving the Welfare of Young People Who Cannot Live with Their Parents” in SWAIN, P (ed) In the Shadow of the Law: The Legal Context of Social Work Practice (Federation Press, NSW, 1995) 178

VICTORIA - ADOPTION LEGISLATION REVIEW COMMITTEE Report of the Adoption Legislation Review Committee (March 1983)

VICTORIAN ABORIGINAL CHILD CARE AGENCY Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA, Victoria, 1987)

WALKER, Y “Aboriginal Concepts of the Family” (1993) 18 Children Australia 26

WILKIE, M The Survival of the Aboriginal Family in NSW 1788-1981: A Review of Government Policies and Administration (NSW - Aboriginal Children’s Research Project, Discussion Paper 4, April 1982)

WILKINSON, D “Aboriginal Child Placement Principle: Customary Law Recognition and Further Legislative Reform” (1994) 3(71) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 13

WILKINSON, K and ANGUS, G Adoptions Australia 1990-91 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Child Welfare Series No 1, 1993)

ZABAR, P and ANGUS, G Adoptions Australia 1992-93 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Child Welfare Series No 7, 1994)

ZABAR, P and ANGUS, G Adoptions Australia 1993-94 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Child Welfare Series No 11, 1995)



Preface | Acknowledgement | Terms of reference | Abbreviations
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4
Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8
Appendix A | Appendix B | Appendix C | Appendix D | Appendix E
Appendix F | Appendix G | Appendix H | Appendix I | Appendix J | Appendix K
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