At age 6, Brandon Walters was battling leukemia. At 13, the Aboriginal boy is a new face of Australia, the child star of the epic movie "Australia," whose makers have vowed to protect him from ...

Stolen Generations children raising their hands at Kinchela. [Photo by Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation] The Guardian recently published a distressing account of the maltreatment suffered by ...

Only 15.6 per cent of national child protection funding goes towards family support services aimed at keeping families intact, a report has found. Advocates are urging the government to 'invest in ...

An indigenous Australian lawmaker on Monday called for an end to racism against aboriginal children as Australia marked the national aboriginal children's day. "Today is National Aboriginal and Torres ...

Dozens of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children have received free and fast-tracked surgery to prevent hearing loss and chronic ear disease. Jahkye is one of 100 children whose lives have ...

A day before Deborah Melville’s death in July 2007, the 12-year-old was visited by a Northern Territory child-protection worker at her foster home outside of Darwin, Australia. The caseworker noted ...

More than 60% of young people in prison/detention in eastern Australia are currently made up by Aboriginal children, according to authorities. "Aboriginal children make up 60% of the youth detention ...

Adult Aboriginal Australians have 1.5-fold higher risk of obesity, but the trajectory of body mass index (BMI) through childhood and adolescence and the contribution of socio-economic factors remain ...

A Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports on the cruelty toward aboriginal children forced to attend church-run Indian residential schools. Renee Montagne talks to Chairman Murray Sinclair. For ...

Language skills in the preschool period are an important indicator of early development and school readiness for children. However, little is known about the association between aspects of the ...

Sandra Eades receives funding from National Health and Medical Research Council grant # 1007878. Around 20% of Aboriginal births in Western Australia between 1996 and 2012 weren’t registered. The ...

Susan Collings receives funding from the New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice. Irene Wardle is a Board member for Narang Bir-rong and Need a Tutor. John Gilroy does not work for, ...