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The mental health of Australian children and adolescents
Download the Young Minds Matter report and overview, watch video snapshots and access survey results and tables.
Parents and carers were asked about the quality of services, need for services and whether their children received the needed service, as well as barriers.
A comparison between the first and second national surveys of youth mental health

A dramatic rise in food allergies over the past 20 years had Australian medical professionals scratching their heads, with three in every ten babies born each year developing food-related allergy or eczema.

Between 1989 and 1991, almost 3,000 WA babies were recruited to the Raine Study - an ambitious research project which would yield a series of paradigm-shifting findings that changed scientific thinking. Three decades on, it has also changed the lives of those taking part.

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WA Kids Cancer Centre researchers appointed to Brain Cancer Expert Advisory PanelDr Jessica Buck and Associate Professor Raelene Endersby have been appointed to the prestigious Australian Brain Cancer Mission Expert Advisory Panel.
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