Summary The aim of this report is to provide information about injuries that lead to hospitalisation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people aged 0 to 24 years. Injury is a significant health issue for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of all ages with rates of injury for specific causes many...

Promising to set targets to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the justice system, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten claims a young Aboriginal man of 18 is more likely to end up in jail than university.

The majority of the Aboriginal population in Victoria is aged 25 and under and among the highest users of mobile phones: actively engaging in social media and using digital technologies, especially mobile devices and the internet, to produce and tell their stories in ways determined by them. In 2013-2014, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network...

To design policies that maximise the chances that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) students will attend school on a given day, it is important to have a detailed understanding of how Indigenous students make the decision about whether to attend. In this paper, four data sets are analysed to shed light on the attendance...

This project worked with Aboriginal youth under the age of 25 – an age group that forms the majority of the Aboriginal population in Victoria and is among the highest users of mobile phones, actively engaging in social media and other online platforms. With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, Aboriginal youth throughout Australia are...