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Advocates say the Voice is an opportunity to right historical wrongs.

This week on Moorditj Mag, Jim Morrison is joined by special guests from The Healing Foundation; […]

The Federal Government has announced $2.8 million funding for the Australian Human Rights Commission’s landmark Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices

An independent Indigenous expert group has been formed to co-design a new program to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child sexual abuse

Blue Knot Foundation, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation (The Healing Foundation), and the Australian Childhood Foundation

The Healing Foundation CEO Fiona Cornforth with Adam Stephen, ABC Radio Queensland Drive Topics: Healing, Torres Strait Islands, intergenerational

Eileen Cummings was forcibly removed from her family when she was just four years old. She remembers playing on the homesteads verandah at the station where she lived, when a man pulled up in a truck, asking if she wanted to go for a ride. The next thing she knew, they were driving away from the station. "I was removed from my mother, my Country, my people, everything, and put into an institution at Croker Island," Ms Cummings said. "We were removed because we were classed as half-caste child...

Announcement comes three months after families began legal action over policy of forced assimilation.

Stolen Generations survivors have poorer health and socioeconomic demographics than other Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians of the same age.

A new report has found there are more Stolen Generations survivors than first thought, but they're more likely to be sicker and poorer than other First Nations people.