The new 2.4 million dollar Yuendumu pool opened with a splash on Thursday as local school kids made use of the new 'yes pool, yes school' policy....

Hermannsburg, west of Alice Springs was the first community in Central Australia to receive health checks by the Federal Government's taskforce of medical volunteers. ...

About one third of the population of Santa Teresa disappeared over the weekend prior to the planned arrival. People were frightened that the army were going to come and they were going to take children away....

It is breakfast time at the Yuendumu child care centre. Fruit and cereal are on the menu and around twenty kids are tucking in....

The Alice Springs Women's Shelter was set up to keep women safe from domestic violence. One of the aspects of the shelter that is often overlooked is the number of kids who also call the shelter home....

Researchers in Europe followed women from early pregnancy right through to birth and then studied their children with the focus on what pre-natal factors might influence behavioural problems in children....

Researchers in the UK looked at the relationship between parenting styles during childhood and adolescence and children's psychological well-being in midlife....

One in eight Australian children is at risk of having a learning difficulty by the time they start school. But recent developments in neuroscience show that such problems are not the result of low intelligence or poor discipline: they occur because of the way some brains are 'wired'. The good news ...

A new venture, the Home Grown School Feeding Project, aims to provide food for underfed children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rather than importing food from donor countries, they focus on providing the food from local sources....

In this program we look at some of the possible causes of childhood obesity and what effect genes may have on eating behaviour. We also talk to a researcher who's involved in developing ways to help children and their parents to combat childhood obesity. ...