The number of Australians who are obese has reached "staggering" numbers according to a key government report.

The former manager of a women's centre in a remote central Australian community has pleaded guilty to defrauding thousands of dollars from an Indigenous corporation.

Federal Indigenous Health Minister Warren Snowdon has told a forum on petrol sniffing that if retailers don't decide to sell low aromatic fuel voluntarily, they...

A senior ranger is not sure how a freshwater crocodile has ended up in an outback river system at Birdsville in Queensland's far south-west.

A report by Amnesty International says Australia must address its soaring Indigenous incarceration rates.

A child psychiatrist from the Menzies School of Health Research says alternative long-term care options are necessary to protect vulnerable Aboriginal children.