Victoria’s child protection system is creating ‘new stolen generation’, Aboriginal leader says

Sue-Anne Hunter, deputy chair of the Yoorrook Justice commission, says: ‘Too many children are still separated from kin, Country and culture as a result of detrimental policies and practices.’ Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Aboriginal leaders say Victoria’s “culturally unsafe” child protection system is creating “a new stolen generation”, as the state’s truth-telling inquiry prepares to hold hearings on the subject from Monday.

Last year one in nine Aboriginal babies aged under one was taken away from their families by the state of Victoria, more than double the national average.