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SNAICC – National Voice For Our Children
SNAICC – National Voice for our Children, formerly Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care and usually referred to simply as SNAICC, is an Australian organisation dedicated to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Catherine Liddle is CEO of SNAICC. History The inaugural Aboriginal Child Survival Seminar was held in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, in 1979. There the attendees proposed the formation of a national peak body to advocate for and represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children nationally, the main driver being the high rates of removal of Indigenous children from their families by the state and territory child protection systems. Yorta Yorta women Mollie Dyer and her mother Margaret Tucker, who had established the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency in 1976, were instrumental in advocating for the body. The Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care was formally established a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander
Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups, which include many ethnic groups: the Aboriginal Australians of the mainland and many islands, including Aboriginal Tasmanians, Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islanders of the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea, located in Melanesia. 812,728 people Aboriginality, self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these Indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal, 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander, and 4.4% identified with both groups. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
