by Debra | Apr 1, 2025 | EDITORIALS
Barbara Biggins OAM CF, is CMA’s Honorary CEO. One win from overly-long review of classification CMA has had a big win. The treatment of scary content under the National Classification Scheme (NCS) is to be a focus in the next stage of the revision of the NCS. CMA...
by Debra | Mar 4, 2025 | EDITORIALS
Barbara Biggins OAM CF, is CMA’s Honorary CEO. Collective action on the prevention of digital harms In late February, members of Children and Media Australia met online with clinical experts, academics, and maternal and child nurses to share ideas about what we are...
by Debra | Feb 4, 2025 | EDITORIALS
Toni Hassan is the author of ‘Families in the Digital Age: Every Parent’s Guide’ (Hybrid Press, 2019) and an advisor to Children and Media Australia. Enforcing the new social media law limiting access to minors. What can we expect? Introducing...
by Debra | Dec 4, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Barbara Biggins OAM CF, is CMA’s Honorary CEO. It’s been a busy year for those striving for a screen environment for children that is happier, healthier and more hopeful. Here at Children and Media Australia we’ve researched and written, or contributed to, 11...
by Debra | Nov 4, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Dr Anthea Rhodes is a Developmental and Behavioural Paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and a CMA Board member. In this month’s editorial she recalls her first experiences with gambling; and now, as a doctor, she recognises the societal and...
by Debra | Oct 1, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Lizzie O’Shea is a lawyer and writer, she sues technology companies who have done the wrong thing. She is a founder and the chair of Digital Rights Watch. Without bold reform our online spaces will remain toxic and dysfunctional, for people of all ages...
