Bid to reform NSW’s out-of-home-care system in peril after suspension of MP Gareth Ward
by Michael McGowan from World news | The Guardian on (#5XMGK)
Exclusive: Supporters concerned they lack numbers needed to pass bill after Kiama MP's suspension
The suspension of Kiama MP Gareth Ward from the New South Wales parliament has jeopardised a bill based on a landmark inquiry that found the removal of Aboriginal children from their families was escalating at an alarming rate" in the state.
The Family Is Culture bill would for the first time require magistrates to presume" an inherent harm in removing Aboriginal children from their families, in what advocates have hailed as a landmark reform to NSW's scandal-plagued out-of-home-care system.
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