The high court has ruled an Aboriginal woman can pursue damages on some allegations of historical sexual and physical abuse while in state care in Queensland. The woman, 70, had tried to sue the Queensland government for almost $1.76m in damages, claiming she suffered a psychiatric injury as a “state child” decades ago. She alleged the state had failed to protect her when she was in their care, claiming she had been abused or assaulted in the 1950s and 1960s while living in a foster home, at a girls’ dormitory and while visiting her grandmother. She was placed into state
