The National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families was established by the Federal Attorney-General in 1995. It was conducted by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC). In April 1997, the Commission handed down the report, Bringing them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the…
The Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care was referred to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee on 4 March 2003. This inquiry was directed primarily to those affected children who were not covered by the 2001 report Lost Innocents: Righting the Record, inquiring into child migrants, and the 1997 report, Bringing them Home, inquiring into…
In May 1982, an inquiry began by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. The result of this inquiry was the report, ‘Children in Institutional and Other Forms of Care: a national perspective’ (1985). The Committee noted that little work had been done to date in this area, on a national basis. The Committee’s terms…
In 1951, a British Home Office official named John Moss inspected and reported on Australian and New Zealand institutions where British child migrants were living. Moss spent July-December 1951 travelling around Australia and to New Zealand, inspecting institutions and making recommendations. His report, known as the Moss Report, was submitted to the British government in…
Case Study 30: Youth detention centres, Victoria was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Melbourne in August 2015. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Turana Youth Training Centre, Winlaton Youth Training Centre and Baltara Reception Centre between the 1960s and early…
On 25 October 2012 at 11.30 am, the Premier of Victoria, Ted Baillieu, Opposition leader Daniel Andrews and Nationals leader Peter Ryan addressed a joint sitting of the Victorian Parliament to apologise officially to all those who were affected by the forced adoption practices in the state between the 1950s and the 1970s. The Apology…
In July 2011 in response to an anonymous source providing information on the unsatisfactory storage and management of ward records by the Department of Human Services, the Victorian Ombudsman launched an investigation into these concerns. The report was submitted to the Parliament on 29 February 2012. Its major recommendation was that in consultation with the…
On 17 April 2012 the Victorian Government announced the establishment of a Parliamentary inquiry into ‘matters relating to the handling of alleged child abuse by religious and other organisations’ . In response to Recommendation 48 of the Cummins Inquiry, the Family and Community Development Committee is requested ‘to inquire into, consider and report to the…
The Premier of Victoria Mr Ted Baillieu launched the ‘Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children Inquiry’ on 31 January 2011. Its terms of reference were: ‘to inquire into and develop recommendations to reduce the incidence and negative impact of child neglect and abuse in Victoria.’ The Inquiry Panel comprised The Honourable Philip Cummins as Chair, with Emeritus…
The state government of Victoria established the inter departmental committee of inquiry into allegations of neglect and maltreatment of young children to investigate claims made in articles published in the Medical Journal of Australia in 1966. The committee was set up in December 1966 and first reported in December 1967. A second report was delivered…
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