Northern Territory: Addressing Systemic Neglect Of Young Indigenous Children's Rights To Attend ...

Northern Territory: Addressing Systemic Neglect Of Young Indigenous Children's Rights To Attend School In The Northern Territory, Australia June Slee, 2011   Indigenous children in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia have the highest school non-attendance rates and the lowest literacy and numeracy outcomes in Australia. The NT Department of Health and Families classifies failure to send children to school as neglect, and as such, a form of child abuse. This paper contends that the...

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