The largest project of its kind in Australia that will answer the biggest questions facing a generation today has set a new global benchmark for child health research, new findings reveal. The ...

One works with children every day but has no desire for her own. Another watched her own mum, a single mother of three daughters, work several low-paid jobs to raise them, realising motherhood wasn’t ...

The Productivity Commission's latest Closing the Gap data shows just four out of 19 targets are on track. Advocates call for ...

As a mum of two in suburban Australia, my weekends are filled with sport. In summer, you’ll find me sitting in the shade by a cricket pitch; come winter, it’s netball and footy, Thermos and umbrella ...

Every South Australian public primary and middle school student will be made to be “active” for 2 ½ hours a week in a major ...

Many vaccines confer surprising knock-on, or indirect, health benefits when they have been put into widespread use.

Around 20,000 Australians who survived childhood and adolescent cancer require lifelong care, with numbers expected to rise 20% in the next ...

More than 1 million Western Australian children have received free dental care through the WA School Dental Service since 1975The service provides ...

Five Iranian footballers made the heart-wrenching move to stay in Australia. For those who returned home, the decision was ...

Would you give your child a melatonin gummy to help them sleep? Here’s what experts told me - WORLD SLEEP DAY: As increasing numbers of exhausted parents are relying on gummies bought online or in the ...

Menopausal women who begin to “soul search” about what they want out of life are no longer afraid to leave their husbands ...

Nurse claims a ‘voice’ told her to kill her three kids and is now suing medical team for not stopping her - Lindsay Clancy is set to stand trial for the murders of her three children later this summer ...