by Debra | Mar 5, 2024 | EDITORIALS
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...
by Debra | Mar 5, 2024 | TALKING POINT
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...
by Debra | Feb 6, 2024 | TALKING POINT
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...
by Debra | Feb 6, 2024 | EDITORIALS
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...
by Debra | Dec 11, 2023 | TALKING POINT
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...
by Debra | Dec 11, 2023 | EDITORIALS
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...
by Debra | Oct 31, 2023 | TALKING POINT
In response to the inquiry into online gambling and its impacts, CMA’s Hon. CEO, Barbara Biggins OAM CF, puts forward the need for urgent action. We seem to have been waiting a long time for government action on the promotion of gambling. The public and CMA have been...
by Debra | Oct 31, 2023 | EDITORIALS
Rys Farthing is the Director of Research & Policy at Reset Australia. She works on realising children and young people’s rights in the digital world through policy and regulation, and helps to coordinate the civil society campaign for a children’s privacy code....
by Debra | Oct 5, 2023 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s Hon. CEO, Barbara Biggins OAM CF, explains why the AANA must listen to community concerns about scary content Advertisements with scary images can stay with a child, causing sleep disturbances and ongoing unnecessary fears and anxieties. These impacts are not...
by Debra | Oct 3, 2023 | EDITORIALS
Joanne Cantor, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Children and Scary Media – Bad News Seems to Be Getting Worse When I started graduate school (in 1970), I began doing research on the effects of the media....
