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...
by Debra | Sep 9, 2024 | EDITORIALS
Dr Sumudu Mallawaarachchi is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research interests (including her PhD) focus on digital media, technology and child development. Dr Dylan Cliff is an...