The home is the most common location where childhood injuries occur Kidsafe Victoria has issued a call for parents and carers to conduct a safety audit of their homes to ensure measures are put in place to help keep children safe. The call comes following a spike...
But we can learn from the real thing, writes Nicole (Nikki) Brunker. Adding to the clamour of argument over whether schools should be open to all during lockdown is confusion in terminology. Using the term “home schooling” to describe schooling during lockdown is disrespectful to both...
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will deliver the annual Closing the Gap update in federal Parliament on August 5. He is expected to announce: a new $1 billion "implementation plan" aiming to close the gap Stolen Generations members from the NT and ACT will receive payments as...
Thousands of children returned to home learning this week with the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Queensland forcing the closure of schools in south-east Queensland. Despite distance learning becoming the norm in 2020, University of Southern Queensland education expert Michele Wright said many parents would still be...
Gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy might have a high up-front price tag. But by screening and treating infants early, the therapy can save both lives and money in the long term. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a type of motor neurone disease, is one of the...
After the initial excitement of meeting your new baby, you often experience a period of feeling exhausted, tense and even stunned, once the day-to-day routines of caring for a newborn become a reality. Everyone will tell you, and it’s absolutely true, that no one can prepare...
Matthew Barton and Michael Todorovic answer this question sent to Curious Kids Why are some kids left-handed and others are right-handed? —asked Sofia, aged 8 to 'Curious Kids' Hi Sofia, thanks for your great question! For a lot of human history, lefties have been seen as a little...
The Art Gallery of New South Wales is delighted to announce the winners of the ninth annual Young Archie competition, a nation-wide portrait challenge encouraging children and young people to unleash their creativity. Inspired by Australia’s oldest and most-loved portrait award, the Archibald Prize, which is...
A new report discovered that the Ts and Cs of nine of the 10 surveyed apps required a tertiary level reading age, and on average, it would take one hour and 46 minutes to read. The authors think that young Australians need much better protection...
As any lock-down parent knows by the end of the home schooling day, reading to a child a story, can become a real chore. BBC children's channel Cbees have produced a great line up of well known stars for their CBeebies Bedtime Stories. So if you...
