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Sam Burrow, PhD candidate, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia

Removing babies is still harming First Nations families, almost two decades after the apology to Stolen Generations

A baby sits on a picnic rug, surrounded by her family. Belinda Howell/Getty Images

Today marks 17 years since the apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples for the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families between the mid-1800s and 1970s.

Yet, communities and researchers are concerned that child protection systems are creating “another stolen generation” and a “crisis in infant removals”.

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