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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondent

First Nations children’s commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter on courage, speaking truth to power and the boy she can’t forget

Sue-Anne Hunter in Canberra
Sue-Anne Hunter in Canberra. The First Nations children’s commissioner calls herself a ‘reluctant leader’. Photograph: Hilary Wardhaugh/The Guardian

Sue-Anne Hunter carries the stories of thousands of children with her but one in particular is motivating her to hold Australian governments to account for their treatment of First Nations people.

She met the Aboriginal boy as his caseworker, after he was removed from his family through the child protection system, then tracked his name through youth detention, adult prison before he was finally added to the grim list of more than 600 Aboriginal men, women and children who have died in custody since the landmark royal commission of the 1980s.

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