Child Sexual Abuse in Indigenous Communities

This paper is based on discussions with Muriel Cadd and Julian Pocock from the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care. This paper will talk about the following issues:
* The extent of child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities;
* The complications around understanding the problem - why it is even more difficult to understand child sexual abuse in Indigenous ommunites than in the non-
Indigenous population;
* The contribution of past and present trauma experienced by Indigenous people to the present problem of child sexual abuse;
* Cultural clashes in the child protection system - how one cultural model of operating
is imposing on another cultural model of operating; and,
* The way forward, moving beyond consultation to negotiation.