This report outlines how the Thriving Kids initiative can make the most difference for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. For Thriving Kids to succeed, it must be designed and delivered in genuine partnership with Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations.

This report analyses the disproportionate use of school disciplinary absences on First Nations students, students with disability and students living in out-of-home care and the intersection with poverty. It positions the issue as not only a matter for education policy and practice, but one requiring systemic reform, emphasising inequitable system design over individual behaviour.

This article describes a set of guiding principles for genuine co-design with children and young people with disability in Australia. Based on insights from autoethnographic reflections, four relationally driven guiding principles for genuine co-design are developed: personalised, holistic, reflexive and inclusive.

This resource supports practitioners working with LGBTQ+ young people with disability by explaining intersectionality, evidence on key challenges, and practical ways to improve wellbeing. It highlights the impacts of discrimination, heterosexism and ableism, barriers to accessing inclusive services, and the importance of safe, accessible, person‑centred practice across services.

This report investigates Queensland Health's current practices and procedures with regard to its role in identifying and responding to child protection concerns. It is the third report from the Queensland Ombudsman’s investigation into the case of two young people with disability who experienced violence, abuse and neglect during their childhood and early adolescence. The report...