Australia’s Catholic bishops have written to Attorney-General Michelle Rowland urging the federal government to adopt a national working with children check register. Read the letter.
Archbishops’ support for the Keep Them Safe campaign comes as new research reveals ‘box-ticking’ attitudes to child safety are rampant within Australian churches, and the nation’s “disjointed” patchwork of child protection policies are making matters worse.
Child predators are slipping through the cracks of Australia’s child protection systems, with one key safeguard considered a “game-changer”.
The village we know it takes to raise a child is no more, writes Madeleine West. Instead, we are obliged to pay for a ‘caring’ community that has failed us.
Author and journalist Amy Molloy believes her son is a reincarnated healer from centuries ago – and shares how that helps her parent him today.
Competitive parenting is on the rise and it comes at a cost, according to experts.
News Corp Great Australian Parent Survey 2025 results are in – and the country’s parents share the crushing reality of modern childrearing.
Entrepreneur Verity Tuck thought life would be simpler when her daughter started school. She was wrong. Now, she’s created a solution to help her carry her overwhelming mother ‘load’.
Victorian primary schools are being urged to think twice about separating twins into different classrooms, after surprise new findings.
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