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

Lizzie Jarrett says she was ‘shipped around’ foster homes between the ages of four and 12. Photograph: Isabella Moore

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.