Child abuse research leads our first Centre media update for 2012. Child protection stories from several states and territories also feature.
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Child abuse research
- Boys abuse in home first: sex study, The Age, 11 January 2012
Child protection
- Aboriginal child protection system in crisis, ABC Radio National PM, 6 January 2012
- Child protection review to examine 100 cases, ABC News Online, 6 January 2012
- 93 forgotten kids lose lives, Herald Sun, 4 January 2012
- Statistics put above children’s welfare: report, The Examiner, 16 December 2011
- House of Assembly Select Committee on Child Protection (inc. link to final report), Parliament of Tasmania
- Liberals the answer to child protection woes?, RiotACT, 6 January 2012
- A decade of child protection recommendations to roll out next year, RiotACT, 20 December 2011
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