Indigenous children in focus for 'broken' care system probe

Australian Community Media

The gross over-representation of Indigenous children in out-of-home care will form a key part of a major inquiry into a state's "broken" child-safety system. Video via AAP.

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00:00This is the Commission of Inquiry that Queensland needs and Queensland's most vulnerable children need.

00:06I am pleased to see the formation of this commission and look forward to hearing the opening statements of the commissioner.

00:14This is a commission that we had to have after uncovering the detail and data of the child census,

00:22the disturbing and horrific, traumatising incidents, facts, children's self-harming, committing suicide, sexual assault.

00:34We need to get to the bottom of what is this broken child safety system.

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