We need to stop taking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children out of their homes and listen to elders instead.
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Early Childhood Development, The University of Western Australia
Middle ear infections (otitis media) are a common and often painful condition that
most children will experience at least once in their first year.
Pop culture parenting styles like “Helicopter” and “Snowplow” have received a lot of recent media attention. Such coverage tends to overlook the findings of decades of parenting research. Much of this…
The latest Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reform council report released this week showing small improvement in the quality of Australia’s early childhood education comes as federal and state…
Most of the mainstream media reported the election as if the contest between Labor and the Coalition actually represented different sides on the important issues of the day. However, most of the issues…
How would you characterise the mainstream media’s performance during the election campaign? At a time when our leading scientists are continually spelling out the massive and urgent threats that climate…
We are about to show the children of today and tomorrow and the rest of the world that we don’t really care about them. Australians are about to elect the Coalition into federal government. A Coalition…
Recent polling shows that the majority of younger voters intend to vote for the parties on the “left” (ALP and Greens) whereas the majority of older voters intend to vote for the parties on the “right…
Most parents will tell you that they would do anything to protect their children. Many would go as far as to sacrifice their own life to save their child’s. This is said to be part of ‘human nature’. Climate…
Faced with the existential threat of a nuclear war between the USA and USSR in the mid 1980s Sting sang “I hope the Russians love their children too.” Today as a father and child advocate I am just as…
At a time when conservative international organisations including the World Bank and the International Energy Agency are warning that we are heading for 4 degrees or more of warming and that this will…
Over the last few days there has been much discussion here and elsewhere about the Murdoch media bias against the government as well as its push to get the Coalition elected. A much bigger problem for…
Despite a capacity crowd and a stellar cast neither the media nor the Coalition turned up to the climate change election forum in Perth last night. Liberal MP Dr Dennis Jensen who refutes the scientific…
Four months ago, the big media proprietors were fighting proposed federal government press reforms, arguing that “the press” needs freedom if it is to defend the public interest. But these arguments were…
Politicians are in the unique position of being able to enact climate policies that can prevent or minimise great harm to millions, if not billions, of people. They have an ethical responsibility to understand…
As we head into an election, you’d be justified in asking what your local member is basing their climate change decisions on. If your MP says “I don’t support policies to prevent dangerous climate change…
Climate change has been widely recognised by leading public health organisations and prestigious peer reviewed journals as the the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. A recently released…
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