by Debra | Apr 1, 2025 | TALKING POINT
You have a decision to make … Dany Elachi, Co Founder and Movement Director, The Heads Up Alliance, paints a common scenario for parents. Your boy turns 12 next month – and you have a decision to make. Three-quarters of the time you’ll ever spend...
by Debra | Mar 10, 2025 | TALKING POINT
Fighting the new ‘norm’? CMA’s Review Coordinator, Dr Debra Dickinson, shares some observations from an Early Childhood and a parent’s point of view. I’m fortunate to work with CMA, where we’re keenly aware of the latest news and research on the effects of the...
by Debra | Feb 4, 2025 | TALKING POINT
Exemption for online gaming? CMA’s President, Prof. of Law, Elizabeth Handsley, queries the proposed exemption of online gaming in minimum age legislation for social media. The passage of the Australian minimum age legislation for social media is clearly cause for...
by Debra | Dec 3, 2024 | TALKING POINT
Social media at 16: Five common narratives that have left me bewildered CMA’s Vice President, Professor Wayne Warburton, School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, was happy to see the passing of the bill which raised access to social media from 13 years...
by Debra | Nov 4, 2024 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s Hon CEO Barbara Biggins, urges action on the Code of Practice for the Australian Commercial Television Industry (2015), which is, at long last, being reviewed The Code of Practice for the Australian Commercial television industry (2015) is, at long last, being...
by Debra | Oct 2, 2024 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s President, Prof. of Law, Elizabeth Handsley, discusses When is a blanket not a blanket? – and other frustrations of the social media debate Maybe I’m biased, but from where I stand, the relationship between children and social media is one of the major global...