Despite widely varying degrees of experience and training in mental health across the youth sector, those who work with young people are often the first to be told about a mental health problem, or they may be the first person to detect it. Some workers are comfortable with this but many feel that they would...

Growing Up in Australia is the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (also known as LSAC). This study is following two representative cohorts of children and their families, recruited when the children were aged 0-1 years (B or infant cohort) or 4-5 years (K or child cohort). The main activities since the previous Annual Report have...

In 2005 and 2006 the Australian government referred to the Commonwealth Ombudsman the cases of 247 persons who had been detained by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) and later released on the basis that they could not be detained any longer as an unlawful non-citizen. This office agreed to investigate and report...

This Research Note overviews what the Commonwealth provides in terms of child care financial support and assistance.

This literature review was commissioned as part of Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, to consolidate what is already known about Indigenous children, and to highlight what information is missing