The NT Department of Health and Families admits to struggling to cope with an ever increasing number of children in foster care and reports of child abuse....

NT Ombudsman, Carolyn Richards, questions the effectiveness of the government's enquiry into child protection services and the public forums set to take place across the Territory....

The Northern Territory Children's Commissioner, Howard Bath, has responded to claims from the Northern Territory Ombudsman, Carolyn Richards, that the government's forthcoming child protection enquiry is flawed....

Almost 100 vintage cars dressed as crazily as their owners descended upon Rosiland Park in Bendigo for the first leg of the annual Variety Club Bash....

American lawn sales are known as the creme de la creme of outback bargain hunting....

When Susan Maushart first decided to pull the plug on all electronic media at home, she realised her children would have sooner volunteered to go without food, water or hair products. At ages fourteen, fifteen and eighteen, her daughters and son didn't use media. They inhabited media. Just ...

The School Magazine is Australia's oldest literary magazine, and it's the oldest literary magazine for children anywhere in the world. It began in 1916 as a free publication for NSW primary school children, with the noble aim of presenting Australian writers for Australian children. ...

The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are. ...

The comedian Anh Do came to Australia as a young Vietnamese refugee and was set for a very different path in life. After a poor and sometimes turbulent childhood he was set for a corporate career. But then life got in the way, and we're all a bit richer for it. Anh has just published his memoir, The ...

Bringing a new baby home from hospital is terrifying if you are a first time parent. Who can you ask at 3 in the morning if you need advice? Someone on the other end of the telephone is waiting to give you the most welcome advice you will ever get....