Relatives of a dead 15-year-old Indigenous teenager with a significant cognitive impairment say they were not alerted to the fact he had left his residential care facility days before a shocking fatal car crash outside federal Parliament House.
The case has prompted a public intervention by the ACT’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People Commissioner, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts, who has called for a major overhaul of the out-of-home care system, saying it is failing Indigenous Australians.
