‘People think it’s all in the past’: push to reform system taking Aboriginal kids from families

Indigenous children make up 41% of all kids in out-of-home care in NSW, while changes recommended three years ago have been ignored

When Lizzie Jarrett was 12 years old, she walked into her grandmother’s home and met a man she didn’t recognise.

“I thought, ‘Who’s this muscly, baldy-headed, strapping Aboriginal man?’” she tells the Guardian.

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