Children are being abused and violated at alarming rates, with sexual assault and family violence-related assault involving children increasing sharply across Australia from 2014 to 2024, with violence particularly accelerating in the last 3-5 yea...
A first-of-its-kind early intervention initiative is in the pipeline to address a critical education gap for children experiencing family violence and homelessness.
Designed to be hyperpalatable and to ignite an explosive sensory experience once hitting our tastebuds, ultra-processed foods and the rapidly expanding industry behind them have largely taken over Australian children’s diets – and one expert is ca...
The Federal Government is being urged to support an independent MP’s bill to end discrimination of students and staff at religious schools due to their sexuality or marital status.
Teens at a private religious school were made to share beds with teachers, while its principal once wandered through a common area naked, former students claim.
Just half of NSW teachers think digital devices actually help student learning and only 52 per cent see the benefits of having students use technologies in class as outweighing the disadvantages, a sweeping new study has found.
Stories of gendered violence saturate the news media on an almost daily basis. In this article, we highlight elements of an unfolding Australian case to consider how dominant messaging around gendered violence can shape young people’s worlds.
Teachers in Australia’s far north are urging the Northern Territory Government to avert what they describe as ‘a disastrous shakeup of NT teacher regulation’.
Australians would be able to sue big tech companies directly for online harm under a proposed deal to pass Labor’s online safety crackdown.
As children increasingly turn to AI for information, advice and support, researchers are exploring how the way chatbots respond can shape young people’s understanding of these technologies.
