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 ...

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

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 ...

Only 15.6 per cent of national child protection funding goes towards family support services aimed at keeping families intact ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander interviewees reported more than just frustration or anger: they said they felt excluded ...