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Isaiah Dawe was taken into Australia’s child protection system when he was just two months old. He would remain in it until he turned 18 after being placed with 17 different foster families.
The Butchulla and Gawara saltwater man was the fourth generation of his family to enter foster care and it saw him experience physical and emotional abuse, racism, and a loss of connection to his family, land and culture.
None of the primary carers he was placed with were Indigenous, and as a result, he labels the system a modern-day “stolen generation”.
Now aged 26, he is doing something about it.