Aboriginal child moved 1,700km from remote NT community should be returned, family court rules
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/06/aboriginal-child-moved-1700km-from-remote-nt-community-should-be-returned-family-court-rules-ntwnfb
Aboriginal child moved 1,700km from remote NT community should be returned, family court rules
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/06/aboriginal-child-moved-1700km-from-remote-nt-community-should-be-returned-family-court-rules-ntwnfb
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Who’d want to go back there. Sounds like a shit hole. There’s a legitimate risk of sexual assault on some cultural grounds it seems?
If they weren’t aboriginal it wouldn’t even be considered.
Alright. So, the parents don’t give an f about the kid and the women who adopted him was allowed to keep him as long as he stayed in the remote town. But, the adoptive mother moved to another place to give the kid a better life
The only person who want to kid to stay in the remote town is the grandpa?
The grandmother was there but she died. So, now its only one guy and there’s a very high chance that kid won’t get what he needs by being there.
The adoptive mother isn’t even against bringing the kid back to that remote town from time to time. The only reason she didn’t bring him there for the grandmothers funeral cause last time they went for a funeral. The grandparents forcefully kept him.
To be honest, this time the adoptive mother is in the right. I do understand the condition for being the kid mother was that she would stay in that remote town. But, there’s no way that kid will have a good future by being there.
The kid is in a safe place now and now the court wants to return him to somewhere where he isn’t.
I’m curious if and when he falls through the cracks will those same judges be held to account for their decisions?