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We have decades of evidence showing the widespread abuse and neglect suffered by children in the out-of-home care system. The agencies responsible for allowing the abuse have little to fear.
New reports show a widespread lack of care for the cultural needs of many of the 19,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and out-of-home care.
Indonesia’s decision to allow forced chemical castration as punishment for those who sexually abuse children is controversial.
A popular misconception is that most child sex offenders were once victims themselves.
The once-taboo topics of domestic violence and institutional abuse are now front-page news, but repeated reports of incest have not registered in public awareness as evidence of a serious problem.
Victorian child protection law reforms due to come into effect next month will give parents two years from when their children are removed to lift their game, before permanently losing custody.
Plans to take over failing children’s services won’t mitigate the impact of austerity.
The silencing of children has as long a history as child abuse itself. It is why we need royal commissions, books, and now a play: to allow children to tell us the truth of what was done to them.
Hundreds of people have been referred to a programme that is supposed to protect them from being drawn into terrorism. But its methods are deeply questionable.
Our new research shows the culture of sexualisation not only affects how young girls see themselves, but also how they are treated and viewed by adults.
Divorce rates are on the decline in Australia, people are marrying and having children later in life, and more of us live alone. Our experts respond to the new report on Australia’s welfare.
A Family Court “order” for parents of a child to not smoke around him and to limit their alcohol consumption while caring for him have invited the same old accusations about the “nanny state”.
Should ‘think of the children’ ever come to the point of spying on teenagers?
Western Australia was the first state in the nation to allow public access to a sex offender register online. The public needs to understand how it works to avoid a false sense of security.
Ensuring it’s adults that must process their adult emotions - and not children stumbling across them through pornography - is the adult thing to do.
Responses to high-risk pregnancy and high-risk infants across Australia are haphazard, and legislation alone will not correct the problem.
The Northern Territory stands out for having one of the highest imprisonment rates in the world - much higher even than in the US - and it’s hard to argue that this does the community much good.
In response to the tragic death of four-year-old Chloe Valentine in South Australia, adoption has been raised as a solution to a “child protection crisis”.
The report on Jimmy Savile’s abuses in the NHS is eerily reminiscent of a 90-year-old case.
Top contributors
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Director, Arney Chong Consulting and Positive Futures Research, University of South Australia
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Associate Supervisor in Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Huddersfield
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Director, Kath McFarlane Consulting & Adjunct Associate Professor, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Co-Director, Australian Centre Child Protection, University of South Australia
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Research Professor, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Royal Holloway University of London
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Former Director, National Centre for Social Research
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Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
