The year Kevin Rudd apologised Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts was taken from her family
The Briefing
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The Importance of Support in the Age of 18
I would have had more time with my family. I would have been able to go to our country on Bunchalunguigibawabu, with my father. Instead of coming in and ripping me apart from my family, my community, what should have happened is support. And that's what this system never understands. Is it takes and rips families apart, thinking it has the best interest of children at play? But a system that is built and designed and rooted in racism, in violence, in tearing children from their families, is always going to fail. The person that fails on the most is that child. It doesn't just impact the child. It impacts the whole
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