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...
