1 in 7 Australians aged 4-17 experience mental health disorders. Yet policies and interventions focus on adults while approaches to ...
Combining therapy with adventure in the great outdoors could help kids learn social and emotional skills that improve their mental health, says new study.
1 in 7 Australians aged 4-17 experience mental health disorders. Yet policies and interventions focus on adults while approaches to ...
An inaugural Ocean Youth Summit has brought together hundreds of young Australians for two days of learning, connecting, and being inspired to champion the cause of ocean conservation.
Every year, thousands of children and adolescents aged 0–18 across Australia present to an emergency department (ED) or are hospitalised for an injury or poisoning incident. Injury hospitalisations are the third leading contributor to the burden o...
The Australia Institute is recommending that private schools have stricter reporting requirements, greater transparency in funding arrangements, and increased accountability when spending public money, in a submission to the NSW Government’s revie...
An exciting new work experience program in regional NSW is giving Indigenous students an unprecedented insight into what a career might look like in the nation’s Defence Force.
How many times have you got the gist of a government, research, teacher union, or other consultants’ report and felt crestfallen, knowing in your educator gut that strategy won’t change much?
A new $4.3 million research project will hand 25 NSW public schools from disadvantaged areas a platform for positive reform via a ‘high impact’ and ‘evidence-backed’ PD program, despite claims the research behind the model is deeply flawed.
Australia ought to heed the harsh lessons from those school systems around the world that opted to ditch a knowledge-rich curriculum.
The Western Australian Government is extending provision of free period products to the state’s public primary schools, as part of its ongoing commitment, it says, to supporting student health and wellbeing.
As communities nationwide struggle to process the horror of what unfolded in Bondi Junction in Sydney on Saturday, and last night's bishop attack in western Sydney, the Australian Red Cross is reminding us that in challenging times a wide range of...
The Luxon Government is largely failing young Kiwis when it comes to vaping policies, according to the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ.
