by Debra | Jun 4, 2024 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s Hon CEO, Barbara Biggins, discusses ‘Are social media bans the best course of action for minimising harm?’ The big topic of conversation this month has been whether, and how, we could ban children under the age of 14 years from accessing social media. There’s...
by Debra | Jun 4, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Barbara Biggins OAM CF, is CMA’s Honorary CEO. What should classification reform look like? Submissions on the federal government’s Consultation Paper: Modernising Australia’s Classification Scheme – Stage 2 Reforms, closed on May 30. CMA has been pushing for...
by Debra | May 8, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Barbara Biggins OAM CF, is CMA’s Honorary CEO. Australia must get a new system of classification for films and games. Here’s what’s needed! CMA has been arguing for a reformed classification system for years. We believe that the present system is not fit for purpose and...
by Debra | May 8, 2024 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s Hon CEO, Barbara Biggins, posits ‘A useful start on reform of our classification system?’ The federal government has announced the next stage of the long running (since 2011) review of the National Classification Scheme (NCS), and submissions are called for by...
by Debra | Apr 1, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Michael Rich, MD, MPHDirector, Digital Wellness Lab; Co-Director, Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders (CIMAID), Boston Children’s HospitalAssociate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Dr Michael Rich is the Founding Director of the Digital...
by Debra | Apr 1, 2024 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s Vice President, Prof. Wayne Warburton, discusses ‘Finding the right balance’. There is often a disconnect between what science finds about a phenomenon, and the public discourse around that phenomenon. Sometimes this is because those with business or ideological...
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...
