South Australia’s first Aboriginal children’s commissioner has revealed she was racially targeted when she tried to leave ...

The woman responsible for some of the country’s most vulnerable children has seen a lot in her job, but still she sits in her Darwin ­office and shakes her head at some of the decisions being made in ...

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(Sydney, March 27, 2025) – Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care, Human Rights Watch ...

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 ...

Aboriginal children living in remote communities have the highest rate of skin sores, or impetigo, in the world. Almost one in two have skin sores at any one time. Skin sores are a highly contagious ...

Grace Sarra receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The research in this article is part of project for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Marnee Shay receives funding ...