Commissioner's blog

• When kids shouldn't be the entertainment
  24 Aug 2009
  Apologies have been made and investigations are being conducted over the recent live radio ‘stunt’ involving a 14-year-old girl being strapped to a lie detector while being quizzed about her intimate life.

• Putting the child back into 'child care'
  03 Aug 2009
  The Federal Senate inquiry into child care services in Australia has been told that there is growing concern that childcare has been treated as a market commodity, insufficiently tied to quality outcomes for children.

• Change for kids may take time but it still counts
  27 Apr 2009
  In our first ten years the Commission has found that achieving change for children and young people doesn’t always follow a direct path to success.

• Helping kids deal with tragedy in the living room
  01 Mar 2009
  Most Australian school children will have heard the classic Dorothea MacKellar poem that vividly paints their country as a land of natural extremes, the “beauty and terror” that can result in tragedy for those directly affected by natural disasters.

• A new year brings new technologies - time for a new approach?
  14 Jan 2009
  The post-Christmas period is a great time for kids to enjoy their presents, especially to explore the gifts that involved new technologies such as mobile phones, mp3s and ipods.