by Debra | Feb 4, 2025 | TALKING POINT
Exemption for online gaming? CMA’s President, Prof. of Law, Elizabeth Handsley, queries the proposed exemption of online gaming in minimum age legislation for social media. The passage of the Australian minimum age legislation for social media is clearly cause for...
by Debra | Feb 4, 2025 | EDITORIALS
Toni Hassan is the author of ‘Families in the Digital Age: Every Parent’s Guide’ (Hybrid Press, 2019) and an advisor to Children and Media Australia. Enforcing the new social media law limiting access to minors. What can we expect? Introducing...
by Debra | Dec 4, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Barbara Biggins OAM CF, is CMA’s Honorary CEO. It’s been a busy year for those striving for a screen environment for children that is happier, healthier and more hopeful. Here at Children and Media Australia we’ve researched and written, or contributed to, 11...
by Debra | Dec 3, 2024 | TALKING POINT
Social media at 16: Five common narratives that have left me bewildered CMA’s Vice President, Professor Wayne Warburton, School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, was happy to see the passing of the bill which raised access to social media from 13 years...
by Debra | Nov 4, 2024 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s Hon CEO Barbara Biggins, urges action on the Code of Practice for the Australian Commercial Television Industry (2015), which is, at long last, being reviewed The Code of Practice for the Australian Commercial television industry (2015) is, at long last, being...
by Debra | Nov 4, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Dr Anthea Rhodes is a Developmental and Behavioural Paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and a CMA Board member. In this month’s editorial she recalls her first experiences with gambling; and now, as a doctor, she recognises the societal and...
by Debra | Oct 2, 2024 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s President, Prof. of Law, Elizabeth Handsley, discusses When is a blanket not a blanket? – and other frustrations of the social media debate Maybe I’m biased, but from where I stand, the relationship between children and social media is one of the major global...
by Debra | Oct 1, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Lizzie O’Shea is a lawyer and writer, she sues technology companies who have done the wrong thing. She is a founder and the chair of Digital Rights Watch. Without bold reform our online spaces will remain toxic and dysfunctional, for people of all ages...
by Debra | Sep 9, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Dr Sumudu Mallawaarachchi is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research interests (including her PhD) focus on digital media, technology and child development. Dr Dylan Cliff is an...
by Debra | Sep 9, 2024 | TALKING POINT
‘Channel changes at the ABC: good for children?’ In June, the ABC introduced two new channels – ABC Family and ABC Entertains – and four new digital streams with the aim of bringing together “the best kids, family, and general entertainment titles”, and making it...
