May 26th is the 19th anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report into the Stolen Generations. But 19 years on, there is little to celebrate. The rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care has sky-rocketed. In fact, the rates have gone up by 400 percent since 1997, when the Bringing Them Home report was handed down.
Amy McQuire spoke to Secretariat of the National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) chairperson Sharon Williams about why these rates are so high, and what needs to be done to slow the escalating numbers of First Nations children who are being taken away from their families.