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Footballer Jack Riewoldt is the face of the Tasmanian government's Every School Day Matters campaign. Picture: Supplied

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School attendance under 60pc – carrot or stick to fix truancy crisis?

What works best to get the lost generation of Australian students back in schools – footy stars and free food, or threats and fines? Explore the shocking data and take our poll.

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Psychologist Clare Rowe disagrees with schools allowing students to transition without parental consent

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‘Negligence sold as compassion’: School gender transition policy must go

Psychologist Clare Rowe says a state-sanctioned policy that lets teenagers switch their gender identity without parental consent or medical oversight is disgraceful and dangerous.

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MELBOURNE, OCTOBER 8, 2025: Research shows 75 per cent of private primary students are driven to school compared to 62 per cent public. The Fulfaro girls Angie, 10, Daniella (dark hair), 9, and Izzy, 6, walk to school. Picture: Mark Stewart

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‘I’ll drive my kids 300m’ – why few students still walk or ride to school

Most children are now driven to school every day – and experts say parents are the reason ‘it’s only taken one generation for Aussies to stop walking or riding to school’.

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Gen ZÃers Sophie Bator, 11, Sadie Mataira, Jacob Brennan, Charlie Brennan, 8 in Rundle Mall. Pictured on 8th October 2025. Picture: Ben Clark

‘Sigma, skibidi, delulu’: Decoding Gen Alpha’s baffling new language

Have you heard your kids shouting “6-7” and had no idea what they’re talking about? You’re not the only one.

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Chair of the Bishops Commission for Professional Standards and Safeguarding, Bishop Greg Bennet. Picture: Supplied/Giovanni Portelli Photography

Bishops pen ‘desperate’ letter to A-G, call for child safety reform

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.

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Church leaders join national campaign to Keep Them Safe

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.

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Haimee Code has experienced first-hand the dread and anxiety of discovering an alleged predator may have had access to her children.

‘Must be a national priority’: How to keep kids in care safe

Child predators are slipping through the cracks of Australia’s child protection systems, with one key safeguard considered a “game-changer”.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH - 27.6.24 TV actor Madeleine West pictured at Hyde Park in Sydney this morning. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Difficult calls needed to fix our broken childcare system

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.

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Author Amy Molloy on her new book, which explores past-life parenting.

‘How my child’s past life helps me parent today’

Author and journalist Amy Molloy believes her son is a reincarnated healer from centuries ago – and shares how that helps her parent him today.

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Amy Hetherington and Her Daughter, Ruby, 3. Pictured on March 1st 2025. Picture: Ben Clark

Toxic parenting trend exposed: ‘I won the baby walking race’

Competitive parenting is on the rise and it comes at a cost, according to experts.

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Dr Hugh Porter with his children Ned and Hallie

‘A week without seeing my kids’: Realities of being a working dad

News Corp Great Australian Parent Survey 2025 results are in – and the country’s parents share the crushing reality of modern childrearing.

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Entrepreneur Verity Tuck with her husband, Mike Fraser, and children Gracie and Monty. Picture: Supplied

‘It felt like I was drowning’: Mum’s secret to carrying her mother ‘load’

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’.

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Twin brothers Noah (left) and Danny (right) Luethi, aged 8, were in the same grade prep class before being separated in grade one. It comes as new research shows there’s no, benefit to separating twins in the classroom. Picture: Supplied

Schools learn new truth about separating twins

Victorian primary schools are being urged to think twice about separating twins into different classrooms, after surprise new findings.

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