“[Former Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd said ‘Sorry’, but where is Kevin Rudd now?”
Wiradjuri Aunty Deborah Bell said that of her eight grandchildren, three are now under the care of the Department of Community and Justice and that they were taken by NSW Police from their school.
“The caseworkers demanded [we] have to do this and that and then they take [our] kids away. They say it is because of drugs and domestic violence. But is it OK for your kids to live with domestic violence and drugs of the carers?”
Nelly’s Healing Centre founder Helen Eason said the minister in charge, Gareth Ward, must reverse the decision and bring the two Wiradjuri children home.