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....
by Debra | Aug 31, 2023 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s Prof. Elizabeth Handsley reviews the AANA’s revision of its Children’s Advertising Code The Australian Association of National Advertisers, or AANA, recently revealed the revisions it is making to its Children’s Advertising Code (the Code). These will come into...
by Debra | Aug 30, 2023 | EDITORIALS
John B Saunders National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research at the University of Queensland, and Wesley Hospital, Kogarah and Waratah Private Hospital, Hurstville, New South Wales. Gaming Disorder – We need to talk Parliament House, Canberra is the location for...
by Debra | Aug 13, 2023 | TALKING POINT
‘Outside the Screen’ Podcast CMA’s President, Prof. Elizabeth Handsley, has partnered with Dr Kim Le, child and adolescent psychiatrist, in a new podcast, ‘Outside the Screen’. Kim and Liz will be discussing research and policy...
by Debra | Aug 6, 2023 | EDITORIALS
Mary Brushe is an early career researcher at Telethon Kids Institute focused on supporting early childhood health and development. She is in the final year of her PhD in Public Health at the University of Adelaide and is the Vice President of the Public Health...
