AusGeoff wrote on Nov 1
st, 2022 at 1:20pm:
Boris wrote on Oct 31
st, 2022 at 10:40pm:
A child neglect or abuse report every 21 minutes
TERRITORY children are being neglected, sexually exploited or abused once every 21 minutes on average, shocking new figures show.
As I pointed out on the other thread where you posted this same comment,
it's incorrect. You need to look at the number of confirmed cases to reach
any sort of accurate conclusion. You've just been sucked in by a crappy
tabloid newspaper headline from the boonies.
And yet only yesterday in Fed Parliament Lydia Thorpe (pretty sure it was her - single mother at 17, houso from Collingwood - but correct me if you can) speeched that something like 20,000 (I think it was) kids are being abused (in her eyes) by being removed as a new Stolen Generation or something, and this after a stringent process and as a last resort ... of course she also threw in 'deaths in custody' as some weeping sore... forgetting that most of those die of natural causes or kill one another in prison, there is no cover-up of Aborigines being done away with etc, and that their death rate in prison is lower than in their own community.... she lamented that nobody was being held responsible.... well - don't get put in prison just to be safer than in your own community ......
This was on the wahless so I didn't catch every word..... but clearly it was a very one-sided interpretation...
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/child-protection/child-protection-australia-2018...So you can't really trust what they say...
Figures don't gel with my recollection - that 20,000 could be higher.
Ah - here we go, from that link:-
"1 in 6 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children received child protection services
In 2018–19, 51,500 Indigenous children received child protection services, a rate of 156 per 1,000 Indigenous children—an increase from 134 per 1,000 in 2014–15.
12,600 Indigenous children were the subject of a substantiation in 2018–19. The most common type of substantiated abuse was emotional abuse (47%) followed by neglect (31%).
At 30 June 2019, 21,900 Indigenous children were on care and protection orders. Of these children, 70% (15,300) were on guardianship or custody orders."Note that term 'substantiation'.. it's a lengthy and complex thing involving courts and others.... not just some big hairy white bureaucrat coming in and stealing children in the dead of night....