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• Jacinta Price calls for federal takeover of child protection, claims Indigenous kids being sent back to abusers
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Indigenous voice would benefit Alice Springs if people were ‘prepared to be honest’: Price

Price said she wanted the federal government to run the child protection system in the Territory in order to prioritise the “human rights for children regardless of racial heritage, in this country”.

I support the idea of regional and remote legislated bodies that would represent issues going on, on the ground. That’s what I would support. That is what the Coalition supports going forward.

What I have advocated for is I don’t believe in separating us along the lines of race within our constitution. What I have always advocated for is the voices of people in remote and regional communities to be amplified because of the circumstances in those regional/remote communities are very different to other communities.

Someone from somewhere like Balgo, Docker River, Yuendumu, Indigenous voices from there are very different to Indigenous voices from suburban Sydney or Brisbane, or even Alice Springs. And their voices in the bush are often not heard, are not amplified in these discussions, even more so the vulnerable voices in those communities are not heard.

We need to say that children who are living in circumstances where their human rights are being upheld should not be removed for the sake of putting children back with kin.

And I know of circumstances where children have been put in danger because of that provision.