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Follow Bring Them Home, Keep Them Home through research updates, media coverage, interviews and the work happening alongside Aboriginal families and communities.

Podcasts

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Impact Policy AU · 12 May 2026 EP 47 Associate Professor BJ Newton - Restoration, Research Advocacy and Bringing Children Home
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Social Work Discoveries · 11 June 2024 Ep 27 Bring them home, keep them home: A community-led approach to child restoration for Aboriginal families with Dr BJ Newton
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Media stories

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ABC Radio AM · 26 May 2023 Aboriginal women say out-of-home care system stacked against reunifying families
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NHMRC News Centre · 9 August 2026 Transforming support for Aboriginal children across generations
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The Conversation · 9 June 2023 Why are First Nations children still not coming home from out-of-home care?
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The Conversation · 28 January 2022 Reunifying First Nations families: the only way to reduce the overrepresentation of children in out-of-home care
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Awards

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AJSI · 2025 AJSI Prizes: The Best Paper by a First Nations Author Prize
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AJSI · 2025 AJSI Prizes: The Peter Saunders Prize for the Best Article
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NHMRC · 2025 NHMRC Sandra Eades Investigator Grant Award (Emerging Leadership)
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