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AUSTRALIA: High Court grants injunction over asylum seeker boat
7 Jul 2014 News
High Court prevents the return of 153 asylum seekers, including children, to Sri Lankan authorities over concerns about their safety.  
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PRIVACY: How 'over-sharenting' can harm your children
1 Jul 2014 News
An article about parents sharing information about their children on-line and children's right to privacy.
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KENYA: Protests over lenient punishment given in gang-rape case
1 Nov 2013 News
Summary: Kenya's lawnmowing rape sentence sends 1 million flocking to on-line protest...
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AUSTRALIA: New laws to ban electric shocks on children
3 Aug 2011 News
Summary: The treatment of electric shocks, which induce seizures by delivering an electrical current to the brain, is set...
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AUSTRALIA: Wrist X-rays for age determination criticised
27 Jun 2011 News
Summary: Two of Australia's child commissioners have backed criticism of the Gillard government's use of wrist X-rays to...
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AUSTRALIA: Children held 'too long' in detention facilities
13 Jan 2009 News
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AUSTRALIA: Children's welfare groups slam net filters
1 Dec 2008 News
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AUSTRALIA: Child abuse 'needs Royal commission'
4 Jan 2008 News
[4 January 2007] - Cases such as the alleged rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl by her father will continue to happen...
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AUSTRALIA: Hitting kids by the book, based on Proverbs and pain
17 Dec 2007 News
[MELBOURNE, 17 December 2007] - A book and DVD instructing parents how to hit their children with rulers, tree branches...
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