A Child Death Review Board investigation into the systemic failings that enabled the abuse has laid bare issues in the childcare system.

Child maltreatment (CM) poses a substantial health burden, but its impact on healthcare costs and productivity loss in Australia remains unclear.To es…

This story is about something deeper than policy or profit. It's about the trust parents place in childcare every morning when they hand over their children, believing they will be safe — only to find...

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A former airline pilot turned safety researcher explains the shocking lack of real-world testing to keep women safe in the air and on our roads.

The true scale of abuse in Australia's childcare centres has been hidden. With 200,000 pages of previously confidential files, police tip-offs, and evidence from whistleblowers, Four Corners exposes t...

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Alcohol, suicide and injuries driving rises among teenagers and young adults despite overall rates falling, authors say

Queensland Health issues a public health alert warning nitazenes have been detected in tablets.

The Family Wellbeing Program has decades of evidence backing it to help Indigenous people live better lives. Here’s how it works.

COS-P plus treatment-as-usual did not demonstrate greater clinical effectiveness compared with treatment-as-usual alone when delivered in NHS community perinatal mental health services. Therefore, COS...

The number of people accessing prominent pornography websites in the United Kingdom plummets after new age-verification laws — that are also heading to Australia — are introduced.

Children who experience coercive control face an increased risk of developing a mental illness in adulthood, a new childhood domestic violence study has found.

After 25 years in operation, Victoria's Parentline service will shut on October 31 as the government withdraws funding.

Women without partners, or in same-sex relationships, had to pay thousands of dollars for at least two rounds of fertility procedures before they could access rebates.

An ABC investigation has uncovered hundreds of allegations of sexual harassment and assault at the hands of driving instructors. Warning: graphic content detailing alleged sexual assault.

The bold experiment to give 15 at-risk women a chance to own their first home for under $120,000, but there was one tiny catch.

All Australia’s education ministers met in Sydney to agree on a new package of measures to improve safety in childcare.

Common wisdom is that we don’t have memories before about the age of four. So what do parents do when a young child has been the victim of abuse?

In some cases, a lack of places in residential care means children have to be placed in high-cost options like hotels.

Victoria's childcare regulators are failing to keep kids safe due to poor information sharing, legal constraint, chronic underfunding and a system that places the privacy of educators and the pursuit ...

That hollow feeling inside—like something’s missing, even when everything seems fine?

A Victorian writers festival's code of conduct has set a "dangerous precedent", one author says, after more than 50 writers and moderators withdrew from the event.

A string of regulatory failings has seen a Victorian childcare worker retain a legal clearance to work with children — despite being blacklisted from the industry after an investigation found he was g...

An investigation by triple j hack uncovers allegations of young people in Australia being sexually harassed and even encouraged to take their own life by AI chatbots.

She’s six years old, lives in Brisbane and might just be one of the best resilience coaches on television.

Resilience, the ability to cope with challenges, can lead to lifelong benefits when developed in childhood. While storytelling through media may foster resilience, little is known about how this is...

Police responses to family violence are too often harming not helping victims, replicating the power and control dynamics that underpin abuse and increasing risk, trauma and feelings of powerlessness,...

She’s six years old, lives in Brisbane and might just be one of the best resilience coaches on television.

Leading criminologists say Queensland Premier David Crisafulli is comparing unrelated datasets to claim victim numbers have dropped.

A Gold Card for children in care would represent a step toward the kind of coordinated, child-centred healthcare we all strive for, writes Dr Suzanne Packer, AO FRACP. After decades of working with vu...

Whether you're a parent, caregiver, service provider, educator or policymaker, this survey matters to you – because your insight helps shape what better support looks like for all families.

Exclusive: New data shows the childcare abuse crisis runs far deeper than the government’s proposed fixes. Parents and experts say the system requires children to provide evidence of their own abuse b...

When a family member or friend cuts off all communication, it can feel like grief. Here’s how to cope with this surprisingly common type of ghosting.

Play is a big part of early childhood education. But once kids start school, play is frequently dismissed as something fun, that is not part of learning.

School bullying reaches devastating new peaks in Australia with figures showing a rising number of children as young as 10 expressing serious emotional distress following online and in-person abuse.

Emelia Rixon didn't know what she was signing up for when she agreed to accept power of attorney and enduring guardianship for her parents over a decade ago. Now she is caring for them as well as her ...

Law enforcement calls for new laws, decryption amid CSAM ‘tsunami’.

A Melbourne man has been charged with 70 offences related to eight alleged victims between April 2022 and January 2023.