Indigenous Child Welfare Post Bringing Them Home
Author | : Terri Libesman |
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Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2016 |
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This article examines why the human rights framework, recommended by Bringing them home, for reform of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child welfare has not been effectively implemented almost 20 years post the Stolen Generations Inquiry. It critically examines the difference between a human rights framework for child welfare which embraces principles of self-determination and recognition of plural political values compared with a universal individual rights paradigm. It argues that while there have been deep set difficulties with implementing human rights which are pluralised and political in a liberal legal environment, the neo-liberal political and social values which have ascended post the National Inquiry are incompatible with and directly undercut the human rights framework recommended by the National Inquiry.