00:03A call to halt reforms and listen to the voices of Aboriginal people and child protection stakeholders.
00:11The government continues to fail to control our people. It's wrong! Shame on them!
00:16Community leaders and organisation heads voicing concerns about changes they say will see more Aboriginal children being removed from family
00:25while failing to fix a broken child protection system.
00:29This is not good law making, this is not good decision making, this is not good leadership.
00:34The government says the reforms will create a universal principle putting a child's safety at the forefront of all decision
00:41making.
00:42We really can't maintain a status quo, she'll be right approach.
00:47Those who oppose the bill argue safety has always been the priority and warn the laws will weaken the Aboriginal
00:53child placement principle.
00:55We all want the same thing and that's a safe community for our children to live in.
01:00Despite being in the works for more than a year, the reforms were introduced in the immediate aftermath of the
01:06alleged abduction and murder of five-year-old Kuminjai little baby in Alice Springs.
01:11Today, an interim report into how the Department of Children and Families handled her case was released.
01:18The report clarified she was subject to several child protection notifications but all were based on allegations of domestic violence
01:26perpetrated primarily by her father against her mother.
01:30The report found no direct link between the matters referred to the Department and the child's abduction.
01:37The government's child protection reforms are set to pass Parliament tonight.
01:42The report dauert the framework that is yetquefile.
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