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‘They were starving’: Parents’ anger at treatment of children at outback Indigenous hostel

Education advocates are calling for urgent legislation of boarding standards amid fresh child mistreatment claims at an outback Queensland hostel. 

First Nations children who boarded at the Alice River Student Hostel in Barcaldine have told the ABC they were abused and assaulted, poorly fed, left in the care…



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