TASSY’S CHILD SAFETY CIRCUS

A desperate Hobart mother who originally asked the department for help has recently just been allowed to see her son for the first time in over two years. Tasmania’s troubled Child Safety Services struck up a handsome $5000 deal per child per week with millionaire Allan Brahminy who runs a controversial outback NT rehabilitation camp for troubled youth.

“The system is meant to facilitate as much contact as possible! Shipping someone off interstate and not allowing that access and contact goes against the whole care and protection system!”, says Child Rights lawyer, Sebastian Buscemi who was stunned by United Nation's child rights breaches.

Minister for State Development, Michael Ferguson has announced plans for a Tasmanian centre to be established after a $500,000 feasibility study is completed and will be chaired by Childrens’ Commissioner, Leanne McLean.

Paul Schlüter, Team Leader of the Child Protection Party in Tasmania said:

“The family is the ‘atom’ of society. The Children’s Commission is primarily concerned about children and has far less interest in parents or keeping families together.”

The Child Protection Party has proposed a complementary Parents’ Commissioner be appointed to represent 2600 silent parents affected by child protection orders in Tasmania and 130,000 across Australia in desperate need of a spokesperson, a view also expressed by Teresa Hinton, Senior Researcher with Anglicare’s Social Action and Research Centre in Hobart. Five Tasmanian boys still reside at the NT centre.