Books & arts
23 September 2025
How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia
Books & arts
13 September 2024
The rise and fall of an experiment in self-directed learning
Books & arts
3 July 2024
Anne Manne illuminates Newcastle’s web of child-abuse perpetrators, enablers and bystanders
Books & arts
18 March 2024
Jonathan Haidt probes the causes of young people’s mental distress with refreshing humility
Books & arts
12 September 2022
Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
National affairs
22 August 2021
Have children been silenced and forgotten in Australia’s Covid response?
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Nell Malone (1881–1963), hospital orderly and governess
National affairs
26 February 2019
The Morrison government ignores the case for expanding access to preschool education at its peril
National affairs
26 February 2019
With the child sexual abuse royal commission handing down its report, what have we learned so far about the dynamics of abusive institutions?
National affairs
28 June 2018
The royal commission has shown how institutions can rebuild their relationships with the children in their care
6 April 2015
A spate of disclosures of child sexual abuse sets a challenging test for British society, writes David Hayes in London
Books & arts
27 August 2014
Susan Lever welcomes Helen Garner’s perceptive account of the courtroom dramas unleashed one Father’s Day near Geelong
Books & arts
4 March 2014
Susan Powell traces the dramatically changing landscape of adoption in Australia
Essays & reportage
8 October 2012
In 1990 a team of researchers began tracking a group of babies born in two inner suburbs of Melbourne. Their latest results paint a complex picture of obstacles, opportunities and…
Books & arts
12 September 2011
For babies, it’s yes to Bach but no to Mozart, reports Andrew Ford
National affairs
25 August 2011
Early childhood policy is in the midst of enormous change, writes Deborah Brennan. But the legacy of a fragmented and incomplete system, and a failure of ambition, mean…
National affairs
14 May 2009
Two major reports on violence against women and children show a growing level of commitment by the federal government. Now it’s time to take the next steps, writes Susan …
Podcasts
6 March 2009
Peter Clarke talks to Deborah Brennan about child care policy and the longer term impact of the fall of ABC Learning
National affairs
19 November 2008
Australia has become a case study in how not to run childcare services, writes Deborah Brennan. How did this happen and what should we do about it?