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....

It's breakfast time at the Yuendumu child care centre. Fruit and cereal are on the menu and around twenty kids are tucking in. For some, this meal and the morning tea and lunch to follow will be only food of nutritional value they will eat all day....

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 ...

How many reports on child protection do we need to see before Territory children are safe? Another report has found children's services ignored concerns from medical staff about a new born baby who later died in Darwin last year. The minister for Child Protection says enough is enough. ...

New US research is adding to the evidence that a chemical deficiency exists in many babies who die of SIDS. Researchers believe a lack of seratonin, a chemcial that passes messages from one part of the brain to another, can leave babies unable to respond to challenges as they sleep. ...

Having a baby changes you forever. But what happens when that baby is stillborn? Melinda Hickin shares her story....

It's the end of an era today as the Ballarat North, Ballarat Central, and Ballarat East maternal and child health centres shut their doors for the last time....