Children

While a treasured ocean pool on the Eyre Peninsula's far west coast is back up and running, to the delight of locals and tourists, some regional South Australian communities await access to their jetties.

The discovery of homemade bottle cap spikes placed in an 'obvious' manner on a residential street has sparked concern for road users, including children on bikes.

A youth worker says a 12-year-old girl charged with the murder of a 37-year-old woman in Melbourne last week was failed by the system that should have been looking after her.

A Queensland state school teacher has been refused bail, accused of more than 200 child exploitation offences. He was arrested last week but a court has heard investigations have uncovered further alleged offences.

We asked you to vote for your favourite episode in the Biggest Little Bluey Countdown, and biscuits! Here are your favourites.

Know how to bait a hook and sweep a line? In regional Victoria, teenagers want mentors to teach them how to do it.

From the streets, to the courts, to the halls of power — school strikes may look smaller but students are finding other ways to fight for climate action and a better future.

Families in Western Australia's historic mining city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder have been on waiting lists for childcare placements for more than two years, according to a new survey.   

An enlarged version of Maggie Sandles' artwork goes up at a construction site in Southbank — and its creator is eager to inspire others who live with a disability. 

After dipping into her annual leave to stay close to her premature son, Kat Averill is now among advocates calling for an extension to the Paid Parental Leave Scheme.

In 1939, Peter Sprinzels was one of more than 600 Czech children rescued by train — or "kindertransports" —  by a London stockbroker named Sir Nicholas Winton.

Mikaela Reading loves her job, but she is one of many regional mothers scared her career is being jeopardised by what she calls a "childcare desert" in north-west Victoria. 

The ceremony for the music industry's premier awards, the ARIAs, will take place tonight with Emma Memma nominated for Best Children's Album. So are the Wiggles.

Organising a trip to Ballarat was no easy task for this Melbourne family because of 12-year-old Anuli's complex needs. When the outing finally happened, it ended in a way that left them "traumatised".

A child says please and thank you at a friend's house but is rude with their family. They follow the rules if they visit a neighbour but have to be constantly reminded about appropriate behaviour at home. Why? And is there anything you can do about it?

Children at an early centre got the chance to explore an armoured car during a special visit by soldiers this week in Victoria's north-east. 

The owners of the ice creamery pleaded guilty to 16 criminal charges involving breaches of the Child Employment Act, with the magistrate warning the legislation was easy to read and employers needed to educate themselves.

This town in South Australia's Riverland has one of the nation's highest levels of developmental vulnerability in children, but locals say an increase in childcare will help.

In communities where high temperatures and stifling humidity are the norm, residents have been without community pools for years.

When life wasn't quite working for Sydney parents of four Jodi and Daniel, they decided to take a road trip. It proved to be a life-changing act.

More than 100,000 online and telephone reports were made to SA's child abuse line last financial year, a 9 per cent increase from the year prior. 

A Perth woman who held the heads of both her young children underwater in an inflatable pool is jailed, and banned from ever contacting them again.

The number of people caught up in a cochlear implant bungle at the Women's and Children's Hospital has risen to 263, SA Health has revealed.

Stephanie says a letter from the National Disability Insurance Agency that said her six-year-old daughter could lose her funding earlier than expected came as a shock.

Australian of the Year and fierce body activist Taryn Brumfitt launches new program aimed at early educators to help prevent body image issues developing in kids as young as eight years old.