The Guardian • children
Issue #2129
A map of suffering
From early December 2024 to early January 2025, the body temperature of 8 babies fell below any acceptable amount and they froze to death. This...
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Issue #2045
The Swap
Some young people are being educated in silos. They never meet people who are different. Wouldn’t it be great if a few of them could...
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Issue #2175
HALF THE SKY
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the fastest-growing prison population, imprisoned at more than 20 times the rate of non-Indigenous women. In addition, they...
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Issue #2115
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRITAIN: The National Education Union (NEU) has called for the introduction of universal free school meals after a new poll indicated that a growing number...
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Issue #2061
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRITAIN: The number of construction workers killed in site accidents rose sharply from 29 to 45 last year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has...
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Issue #2114
GLOBAL BRIEFS
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Hundreds of Dominicans demonstrated in front of the National Palace, Santo Domingo, demanding improvements to the Criminal Code. The protesters wanted a modern...
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Issue #2045
President Biden’s new discriminatory immigration policy
On 2nd February 2023, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that of the 998 children detained at the US-Mexico, border under the President...
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Issue #2050
HALF THE SKY
Many people are struggling to put a roof over their head for an affordable price. Current legislation at both state and federal level allows for...
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Issue #2044
School strike for action on climate change
On 3rd March, about 100 mostly school children rallied in the Supreme Gardens in Perth directly opposite one of the principal corporate emitters of carbon...
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Issue #2113
COLOMBIA: President Gustavo Petro has signed a decree prohibiting coal imports to Israel, citing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by Israel’s ongoing military action....
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Issue #2070
Nuclear subs challenge trains 10-year-old children for war
It’s time for education ministers across the country to show leadership and protect our children from vested interests and pro-war propaganda. On 19th June, the...
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Issue #2013
The systemic failure of child protection services
CONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault, racial victimisation, child abuse, and suicide, involving minors. An investigation conducted by the ABC has found that a staggering number of...
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Issue #2186
GLOBAL BRIEFS
US: President Donald Trump acknowledged in an interview that the United States had supplied weapons to anti-government protesters in Iran during recent January unrest. The...
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Issue #2024
“Put children before profit”
Tens of thousands of early childhood educators walked off the job across the country to take part in rallies and marches on 7th September. More...
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Issue #2047
US maternal death rate highest in developed world
According to a recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maternal mortality rose by 40 per cent at the height...
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Issue #2094
South Australia: Aboriginal babies still being stolen
In an inquiry in March into the removal of First Nations children in South Australia, it was revealed that the Department for Child Protection (DCP)...
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Issue #2019
Bail laws are not fit for purpose
In early August, the Final Report of the Inquiry into Children Affected by Parental Incarceration was tabled in the Victorian parliament. The Report made damning...
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Issue #2034
Fight back against anti-education rhetoric
Pauline Hanson is doing what she does best: pushing bills that further marginalise minority communities that don’t fit into her conservative outlook. This time, Hanson...
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Issue #2084
Sympathy with the Sorrows and Mourning of the Gazan People
Oh infant, Oh hungry Palestinian child , I have seen your thin body in pieces, your pacifier and your doll, your school bag and books...
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Issue #2087
PEACE NOTES
Israeli crimes in Gaza are bringing some unpleasant new words into our vocabularies. Two are “unchilding” and “domicide.” The victimisation by Israel of Palestinian children...
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Issue #2104
GREEN NOTES
Dr Anshu Banerjee, Director of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing at the World Health Organization (WHO): “While awareness of climate change has...
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Issue #2123
Israeli settlers, Lebanon and weaponising children’s literature
The Israeli settler movement has been looking to establish itself in southern Lebanon, after Israel clears the population. The Israeli military is planning to occupy...
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Issue #2015
Policy-induced violence
At least one child is killed by a parent every month; one woman is murdered every week by a partner or former partner; another hospitalised...
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Issue #2194
Australian content lacking for children and tweens
Australia’s children’s television sector is at risk of collapse, leaving a widening gap in local content for children and tweens at a cultural moment when...
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Issue #2149
USA targets our kids
We do a lot to keep our children safe in this country – crossing supervisors, swimming classes, all sorts of safety precautions. Every state trains...
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Issue #2190
Kumanjayi Little Baby and Indigenous women and girls
The alleged brutal sexual assault and murder of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby in Alice Springs has raised the question of how the police and the...
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Issue #2189
Age verification – not so simple
At first glance, age verification looks like a good idea, a no-brainer. There’s a lot of material on the internet we don’t want young people...
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Issue #2055
DINGO
Child advocacy group, SHINE for Kids, has released distressing findings of a national survey which reveals the suffering and compounding disadvantages experienced by the voiceless...
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Issue #2181
Reforms make culture and community a priority
The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) has welcomed the passage of the Children, Youth & Families (Stability) Bill 2025 (Stability Bill). VALS calls the legislation...
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Issue #2116
Social media ban not an effective solution
The Federal government is planning to introduce a minimum age restriction for social media platforms to prevent harm, but many people who seem to know...
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Issue #2078
How we treat our children, what it says about us
The treatment of children has a huge emotional pull, with good reason. Children depend on adults for the basics of life. They are more fragile...
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Issue #2044
CRIMINALISING CHILDREN
Australian governments are quick to point the finger at human rights abuses in other countries, but Australia’s record is nothing short of disgraceful when it...
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Issue #2080
Israel: stop bombing hospitals and stop killing kids
Unionists For Palestine is an Australia-wide cross-union group of rank and file union members. We are organising actions in support of Palestinian liberation. Each group...
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Issue #2121
12 months of genocide
As war continues to cast its deathly and destructive shadow over Palestine and now Lebanon, Friends of Palestine WA called for a rally to maintain...
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Issue #2198
DINGO
The federal government is being urged to respond to a feasibility study on options to limit unhealthy food marketing, as new Australian Institute of Health...
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Issue #2196
Exhibition honours Minab school bombing victims
A moving exhibition was held in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia, over the weekend of 13 June by the Iranian and Palestinian communities to honour the...
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Issue #2161
Urgent action needed to address shocking rates of suicide among homeless youth
New data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has revealed the scale of children leaving violence and neglect, and seeking support from specialised...
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Issue #2175
Invasion Day 2026
On 26 January, join with Indigenous people in their demands for land rights, treaty, and truth-telling! 26 January is an opportunity to strengthen the campaign...
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Issue #2203
DINGO
Rights groups have accused Israel of carrying out a massive operation to crush, mix, and transport millions of tonnes of rubble out of the Gaza...
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Issue #2162
A safer Northern Territory?
It has now been one year since the Country Liberal Party (CLP) returned to power in the Northern Territory. They promised to make communities safer,...
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Issue #2165
EDITORIAL
People who want to downplay solidarity with Palestine have a hard time denying that Israel is carrying out a genocide. Not wanting to be openly...
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Issue #2132
Extreme heat hits kids
Extreme heat, fuelled by the worsening climate crisis, is reshaping children’s lives in Australia, warns the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). As climate change brings more...
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Issue #2081
20,000 Palestinians murdered by Israel
Almost 15,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel’s genocidal offensive against the people of Palestine following Hamas’ raid on 7 October. At least another 6800...
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Issue #2192
UN raises ‘grave concerns’ about Indigenous children
The Australian Human Rights Commission’s Commissioners for First Peoples’ rights, children and racism are calling on all Australian governments to address racism in Australia’s criminal...
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Issue #2188
EDITORIAL
There’s a long line from a children’s book about a river to you and your cost of living. Bear with us, it’s there. We’ll start...
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Issue #2139
Israel murders 18,000 children
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 18,000 Palestinian children as the current Israeli attacks target areas across the Gaza Strip, from north to...
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Issue #2116
Gaza and the tragedy of lost childhood
The killing in Gaza goes on. The USA and Israel’s allies continue to mouth the same empty words. US secretary of state Antony Blinken says...
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Issue #2151
EDITORIAL
There have been a lot of protests in Israel recently, including demonstrations against Prime Minister Netanyahu for his perceived corruption, and because he seems more...
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