This report to the Family Court of Australia describes a follow-up study of the Child Responsive Program (CRP), piloted in the Registries of Melbourne and Dandenong in 2006.

This Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance submission to the Australian Communications and Media Authority focuses on the need for maintaining quotas for children's programs, the desirability of increasing the quotas, scheduling and promotion, the inadvisability of contemplating so-called tradable obligations and touches on advertising. When the Australian Content Standard was last reviewed in 2002, it...

The focus of this paper is on the use of the Internet for the sexual solicitation of children, which is known as 'online grooming'. Typically, this relates to the use of the Internet with the intention to ‘procure’ a child to engage in sexual activity, either online or by means of a physical encounter offline...

There is plenty of evidence for intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. However, mortality, as the most significant adverse outcome of children, is not well explored, especially in Australia. Lack of appropriate data is one of the main reasons. To tackle this issue, this paper uses a unique administrative dataset of the Department of Families, Community Services...

There is a lack of evidence about the outcomes of child protection services, in particular, their impact on the educational outcomes of children in the care of the state. Education makes a significant contribution to the development and well-being of children, providing an important gateway to future employment and life opportunities. For many children in...