Self-Determination and Queensland's Child Protection System

Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry (2012). See <https://www.childprotectioninquiry.qld.gov.au/>.

Ibid.

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (‘DRIP’), GA Res 61/295 (13 September 2007).

Anaya James , ‘The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Self-Determination in the Post-Declaration Era’ in Charters Claire and Stavenhagen Rodolfo , (eds), Making the Declaration Work: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (IWGIA, 2009).

Anaya James , Special Rapporteur, Report on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, UN Doc A/HRC/12/34 (15 July 2009), (‘Report of the Special Rapporteur’).

See DRIP, UN Doc GA Res 61/295, arts 3 and 4.

Report of the Special Rapporteur, above n 5.

Anaya James , Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people – Situation of indigenous peoples in Australia, UN Doc A/HRC/15/37/Add.4 (1 June 2012).

Australian Human Rights Commission, Social Justice Report (2012).

See, eg, Productivity Commission, Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2011 <http://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/indigenous>.

Ibid 47.

HREOC, Bringing them home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (1997) (‘Bringing them home report’).

Ibid 62.

Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 (Qld); Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Act 1939 (Qld); Torres Strait Islanders Act 1939 (Qld).

Bringing them home report, above n 12, 69.

Ibid.

Libesman Terri , ‘Indigenising Indigenous Child Welfare’ (2007) 6(24) Indigenous Law Bulletin 17.

Australian Institute of Family Studies, ‘Child Protection and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’ (June 2012).

Bringing them home report, above n 12, Recommendation 43c.

ALRC and Australian Human Rights Commission, Seen and heard: Priority for children in the legal process: Report of the National Inquiry into Children and the Legal Process (1997) <http://humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/children/seen_and_heard.html>.

Queensland , Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 10 November 1998, 2795 (Anna Bligh, Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care).

Ibid.

Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld) s 5C.

Ibid s 83.

Ibid s 83(4).

Combined Voices, Addressing the Over-Representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Families in Queensland's Child Protection System Policy Monograph, January 2010.

Berlyn Claire Bromfield Leah and Lamont Alister , Child protection and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children, National Child Protection Clearinghouse (April 2011).

Queensland Government, Commission for Children and Young People, Indigenous Child Placement Principle: Audit Report 2010–11.

See Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld) Division 3. A blue card is referred to as a ‘prescribed notice’.

Discussion Paper, Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry, February 2013.

Submission of the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services to the Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry, December 2012.

Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld) Section 256I.

Ibid.

Ibid s 246I(1).

Ibid s 246I(2).

Ibid s 6(1).

Ibid s 6(6).

Ibid s 6(2).

Queensland Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services, Child Safety Practice Manual, 24 December 2012 <http://www.communities.qld.gov.au/childsafety/childsafety-practice-manual>.

Ibid Ch 10, at 2.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld), ss 5C(a) and (b).

Ibid ss 6(4)(b), s 6(5), s 7(1)(f), s 7(1)(o), s 11(3), s 51D(iv) and s 51L(2).

Ibid s 88.

Ibid s 51D(iv).

Ibid s 51L(2).

Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Safety Taskforce, ‘Together keeping our children safe and well’ (2009).

Queensland Department of Communities (Child Safety Services), ‘Blueprint for implementation strategy: Reducing the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Queensland's child protection system’ (2009).

Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld), s 11 contains an expansive definition of ‘parent’ while ss 23, 37, 51AA, 51F, 52, 205, define ‘parent’ in a restricted way.

Explanatory Notes, Child Protection Bill 1998 (Qld) 12.

Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld), see ss 11(3) and 11(4).

Explanatory Notes, Child Protection Bill 1998 (Qld) 19.

Family Law Act 1975 (Cth).

Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld), s 10 provides that a child is in need of protection if they have suffered harm, are suffering harm, or are at unacceptable risk of suffering harm and do not have a parent able and willing to protect the child from harm.

Ibid s 113.

Ibid.

Australian Institute of Family Studies, above n 18, Statistics.

Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld), s 10.

Cunneen Chris and Libesman Terri , ‘Postcolonial trauma: The contemporary removal of Indigenous children from their families in Australia’ (2000) 35(2) Australian Journal of Social Issues 109.

Queensland Council of Social Services, Child Protection Policy Paper (November 2009) <http://www.qcoss.org.au/our-work/Child%20protection>.

Australian Institute of Family Studies, above n 18.

See, eg, Cunneen and Libesman , above n 60.

Anaya , above n 4.

Bamblett Muriel and Lewis Peter , ‘Detoxifying the Child and Family Welfare System for Australian Indigenous Peoples: Self-determination, Rights and Culture as the Critical Tools’ (2007) 3(3) First Peoples Child & Family Review 43.

Child Protection Act 1999 (Qld), s 18.

Victoria, Report of the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry (January 2012) xxviii. <http://www.childprotectioninquiry.vic.gov.au/report-pvvc-inquiry.html>.

Ibid recommendations 32–36.

Libesman Terri , ‘Child Welfare approaches for Indigenous communities: International perspectives’ (Child Abuse Prevention Issues No 20, AIFS, 2004) <http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/pubs/staffpubs.html>.

Rosier Kate , Indigenous led approaches to Indigenous child abuse and neglect. An exploration of implementing Indigenous led approaches in Canada, with potential lessons for Australia (National Child Protection Clearing House, 2010).

Ibid.

Ibid.

Libesman , above n 69.

Ibid. Contains examples of the cases of Cherokee Nation 30 U.S. 543 1823, Worcester 31 US 16 PET 5115 (1832), Fisher v District Court of Rosebud Country [424] U.S. 383 (1976).

Ibid.

Ibid.