Media Updates Archives

New inquiry call, child protection and occasional care in media

Today’s media update focuses on a call for a new Victorian inquiry following allegations of a cover-up regarding a report on abuse prepared for the Catholic Church. Also featuring are the NSW Ombudsman’s findings on child protection, and the funding challenges of the Take a Break occasional childcare program.

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Riots hold lessons for State’s vulnerable children policy

Media Updates, News

Update: Transcript of William Carey Lecture now available (PDF)

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Media focus on riot crime neglects social factors

Media Updates, News

Today’s media update focuses on the London riots, coverage of which has emphasised "criminal opportunism", failures of policing and individual moral responsibility, and has included descriptions of the spreading lawlessness as a sickness, contagion or virus.

Here we have selected coverage questioning the social origins of the riots (including the response to the London police shooting), with a Salvation Army opinion piece in today’s Herald Sun asking whether similar riots could happen here.

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Residential care and human rights in the media

Media Updates, News, Occupational Health & Safety, Residential Care, Workforce

Today’s media update leads with reported allegations by former workers and a former board member from Warrnambool community service organisation, Community Connections. There was also substantial coverage over the weekend of the human rights charter and sentencing.

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