PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Promoting ultraprocessed junk foods to kids: what’s the harm?
Kim Anastasiou is a Researcher at the University of Adelaide and Columbia University, and an executive board member of the advocacy organisation Healthy Food Systems Australia.Promoting ultraprocessed junk foods to kids: what’s the harm? Junk food advertising...
Best interests of children must be paramount.
Best interests of children must be paramount. To date, Australia’s online safety regime has not required industry to make the best interests of children paramount when designing or offering services used by children. The Federal Government has recently proposed that a...
Safety by design: an idea whose time has come in Australia?
CMA’s President, Prof. of Law, Elizabeth Handsley, puts forward, 'Safety by design: an idea whose time has come in Australia?' Imagine a world where you could let children go online with as much confidence as you can give them a glass of water out of the tap. Nobody...
Redefining the media classification system: Parents, we need your say, in order to sway
Dr Fae Heaselgrave, Lecturer and researcher in communication and media, University of South Australia. Redefining the media classification system: Parents, we need your say, in order to sway Welcome to the first edition of small screen for 2024. The long summer school...
How did this happen?
A parent has sent us her concerns about a trailer seen recently by her children. We’re sharing it as this month’s Talking Point. How did this happen? During our Sunday morning children’s cartoons viewing on 9Go on October 22, I saw the following commercial for the...
2023: A year of waiting for government
Barbara Biggins OAM CF, is CMA’s Honorary CEO. 2023: A year of waiting for government Big Tech has continued to exploit our children this year with little effective action from the government. We have had to wait too long to stop this exploitation. Big Tech has been...