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Madonna King is a leading journalist and commentator who writes for the Brisbane Times. She was an award-winning mornings presenter on 612 ABC Brisbane and is a five-times author.

So your child takes their phone into their room? Stop it, say ‘sextortion’ experts
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So your child takes their phone into their room? Stop it, say ‘sextortion’ experts

‘Sextortion’ is becoming disturbingly common: online scammers posing as attractive teens to lure young people into sending money or nude images – then blackmailing them.

  • by Madonna King

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‘We want to be ourselves’: Students are teaching us a gender lesson
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‘We want to be ourselves’: Students are teaching us a gender lesson

For gender-questioning teens, it can be a complex, tortuous, lonely and liberating time: a time for parents, schools, politicians and the wider community to help, not hurt.

  • by Madonna King
'My friend, she's really skinny, I need to lose weight' … the teenage angst swamping 10-year-old girls

'My friend, she's really skinny, I need to lose weight' … the teenage angst swamping 10-year-old girls

Body anxiety. Friendship break-ups. Social media obsessions. Tears, so many tears. For today’s Australian girls, tweens are growing up faster than ever. Welcome to the life of the “ten-ager”.

  • by Madonna King
'Intimate terrorism': why the murders of Hannah, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey must spark change
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'Intimate terrorism': why the murders of Hannah, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey must spark change

Rowan Baxter had barely ever laid a hand on his wife Hannah Clarke – until he set fire to her and their three kids on a suburban Brisbane street in February. The crime shocked the country, and strengthened calls to criminalise coercive control.

  • by Madonna King
Ex-Family Court chief wants coercive control laws to criminalise 'intimate terrorism'

Ex-Family Court chief wants coercive control laws to criminalise 'intimate terrorism'

His comments, made on the eve of White Ribbon Day, add weight to campaigns being waged to make coercive control, or non-physical domestic violence, a specific offence in mainland Australian states

  • by Madonna King
What our daughters need from their fathers during home isolation

What our daughters need from their fathers during home isolation

The challenges for our daughters in the response to COVID-19, and their inability to access the camaraderie of their friends at school, cannot be underestimated.

  • by Madonna King
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'I'm just lost': What students - and their parents - really say about this year

'I'm just lost': What students - and their parents - really say about this year

You’re not hearing them whinging out loud. This generation of 17-year-olds understands how far down the COVID-19 queue of concern they currently sit.

  • by Madonna King
To all the teachers, with love

To all the teachers, with love

If there's one thing home-schooling is teaching us, it's how hard it might be to walk in your shoes.

  • by Madonna King
All over the world, patients are lying about virus: GP

All over the world, patients are lying about virus: GP

For every act of kindness during the crisis, we’ve also seen how the fear of this disease can bring out the worst of human behaviour.

  • by Madonna King
Queensland schools weigh months-long closures, reduced lessons

Queensland schools weigh months-long closures, reduced lessons

Principals across the state have already cancelled out-of-school activities, excursions and school trips, and are now gearing up to provide lessons to students at home.

  • by Madonna King
There is another 'virus' we have to deal with, says vaccine expert Ian Frazer

There is another 'virus' we have to deal with, says vaccine expert Ian Frazer

Professor Frazer pleads for a fact-based public education campaign that did not involve fighting in the toilet paper aisles or stealing sanitiser out of someone else’s trolley.

  • by Madonna King

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