Two childcare workers at an Aboriginal child care centre in Alice Springs have been stood down, with the Northern Territory ...

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

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Child sexual abuse is widespread in Australia's Aboriginal communities where a "river of grog" or alcohol is destroying indigenous society, leaving children vulnerable to ...

(Adds political, community groups reaction, paras 13-17) By James Grubel CANBERRA, June 26 (Reuters) - Australia's plan to crack down on Aboriginal child sex abuse sparked fears among some Aborigines ...

The government has appointed a new National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People, as national targets to reduce child removal and youth detention continue ...

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 ...

A report has found a lack of Aboriginal involvement in the Tasmanian Government's child protection decision-making processes and no available policy documents across a range of areas. From Adelaide to ...

The annual “Closing the Gap” report released at the end of last year by the federal Labor government pointed to an alarming economic and social crisis afflicting Aboriginal workers and youth.