Indigenous family life has been a key target of family and child policies in Australia since colonisation. In this paper, we identify four main policy eras that have shaped the national and state policy frameworks that have impacted Indigenous families: the protectionism, assimilation, self‐determination and neoliberalism eras. Our analysis of these national and state policy frameworks reveals an enduring and negative conceptualisation of Indigenous family life. This conceptualisation continues to position Indigenous families as deficient and dysfunctional compared with a white, Anglo‐Australian family ideal. This contributes to the reproduction of paternalistic policy settings and the racialised hierarchies within them that entrench Indigenous disempowerment and reproduce Indigenous disadvantage. Further, it maintains a deficit paradigm that continues to obfuscate the positive aspects of Indigenous family life that are protective of Indigenous well‐being.

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澳大利亚的土著家庭生活：差异与赤字的历史

自殖民以来，土著家庭生活一直是澳大利亚家庭和儿童政策的主要目标。在本文中，我们确定了影响国家和州政策框架的四个主要政策时代，这些政策框架影响了土著家庭：保护主义，同化，自决和新自由主义时代。我们对这些国家和州政策框架的分析揭示了土著家庭生活的持久和消极概念。与白人盎格鲁-澳大利亚家庭理想相比，这种概念化继续将土著家庭定位为贫困和功能失调。这有助于重生家长式政策环境，并使其中的种族化等级制度根深蒂固，削弱土著人民的权能并重现土著人民的劣势。进一步，