by Debra | May 6, 2025 | TALKING POINT
Standing up to big tech? Prof Elizabeth Handsley, CMA’s President, outlines the government’s cynicism in publicly standing up to big tech while privately granting YouTube an exemption from the legislation. If you thought that Australia was getting robust...
by Debra | May 6, 2025 | EDITORIALS
Barbara Biggins OAM CF, is CMA’s Honorary CEO. A unified classification system – or has the horse bolted? There’s one thing that CMA would ask the incoming government to do: grasp the nettle and establish a classification system for films and games that is...
by Debra | Apr 1, 2025 | EDITORIALS
Barbara Biggins OAM CF, is CMA’s Honorary CEO. One win from overly-long review of classification CMA has had a big win. The treatment of scary content under the National Classification Scheme (NCS) is to be a focus in the next stage of the revision of the NCS. CMA...
by Debra | Apr 1, 2025 | TALKING POINT
You have a decision to make … Dany Elachi, Co Founder and Movement Director, The Heads Up Alliance, paints a common scenario for parents. Your boy turns 12 next month – and you have a decision to make. Three-quarters of the time you’ll ever spend...
by Debra | Mar 10, 2025 | TALKING POINT
Fighting the new ‘norm’? CMA’s Review Coordinator, Dr Debra Dickinson, shares some observations from an Early Childhood and a parent’s point of view. I’m fortunate to work with CMA, where we’re keenly aware of the latest news and research on the effects of the...
by Debra | Mar 4, 2025 | EDITORIALS
Barbara Biggins OAM CF, is CMA’s Honorary CEO. Collective action on the prevention of digital harms In late February, members of Children and Media Australia met online with clinical experts, academics, and maternal and child nurses to share ideas about what we are...
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...
