Children
Putting children at risk: The story of Liam and our healthcare system

Paediatric surgeon Professor Paddy Dewan relates the saga of yet another victim of our failing ...  
Fiona Barnett: The 'Candy Girl', the Royal Commission and the NSW Police

Fiona Barnett details the mistreatment she has endured since testifying to the Child Abuse Royal ...  
One young boy's saga as a victim of puerile behaviour in our health care

Paediatric surgeon Professor Paddy Dewan relates the saga of one boy subjected to puerile behav ...  
Abuse survivor Fiona Barnett: The ‘Candy Girl’

Paedophile ring survivor Fiona Barnett shares her experiences since testifying before the Royal ...  
Just to be heard

Child molestation and abuse is not merely sexual, writes Hannah Odobia, who says all of us must be ...  
Teaching our kids: The ultimate position of power

Teachers wield enormous power, especially in early childhood. Sophie Love discusses the need for ...  
Scientific phenomenon: Storybooks that send your kids to sleep in no time flat

Finally: a legal, non-chemical, even scientifically approved way to get your kids to sleep. Kerry ...  
The *uck stops with Cardinal George Pell

Cardinal Pell has yet to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Child Abuse in Ballarat, but ...  
CHECKLIST: Is grandma fit to babysit?

Is grandma up to the task of looking after your delicate and adorable offspring? Consult Kerry ...  
Immigration workers ask to be charged under new Border Force gag laws

Scores of current and former workers at Australia's immigration detention centres write an open ...  
Time to go, Cardinal Pell

Cardinal George Pell does not seem to know it yet, but last week his world changed. Once and for ...  
Scott Morrison's childcare package: Unfair, flawed and impractical

The Government's childcare package, aimed at pushing mothers back to work as a condition of ...  
Lawrence 'political grub' Springborg and the rejuvenated LNP dirt unit

Under Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, the LNP said they were getting rid of their 'dirt unit' ...  
Bob Ellis: Questions for Deporter Dutton

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has some serious questions to answer about the asylum seekers he ...  
Gold Coast hogtie doctor found guilty of assaulting 7-year-old boy

In 2013, IA broke the story of a paediatrician hogtying a little boy in his surgery. Yesterday he ...  
EXCLUSIVE: How Morrison's Australia crushed the life out of little Febrina

In the wake of the Forgotten Children report, Trevor Grant investigates the damage inflicted upon ...  
Shooting the messenger — forgetting the children

There are children and young people nearing suicide because Abbott is trying to bully and shame ...  
Top lawyers and former PM Fraser slam Abbott's attacks on Triggs and AHRC

PM Tony Abbott's assertions about "good government" starting this week looked even more shaky ...  

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