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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once forbidden from speaking their local language, a group of Indigenous elders in WA use it in a children's book, hoping to breathe life into a dying dialect.

Indigenous leaders have hailed a state's formal apology for past injustices while lamenting persistent ploys to make 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, ...

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 ...

International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3 (July 2017), pp. 1-23 (25 pages) Internationally, the welfare of Indigenous children continues to be severely compromised by their involvement ...