Blogs and Short Articles Archives - Children's Policy Centre

‘No one wants to be the odd one’: Growing up as a teenage boy today

This post is written by Aiden and Zach with Sharon Bessell and Cadhla O’Sullivan and appeared on The Power to Persuade 25 September, 2026

Defining and Measuring Child Poverty in Australia

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Poverty harms children now and into adulthood. It limits health, learning, and wellbeing, and undermines rights set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, including an adequate standard of living, health care, education, and play.

We should be looking at what we can add to children’s lives instead of what we take away

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the government’s plan to introduce legislation to ban younger teens from social media.

Shifting narratives about poverty in Australia

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This is the final post of a 3-part series by Sharon Bessell and Cadhla O’Sullivan from the Children’s Policy Centre at ANU. Today’s post covers welfare policy narratives of individual blame and how they don’t reflect the reality of children’s lives.

‘The Missing Middle’ in childhood poverty and wellbeing indicators

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This is the second post in a 3-part series focusing on childhood poverty and wellbeing indicators. Today Cadhla O’Sullivan, Megan Lang and Sharon Bessell highlight the gaps for children in the middle years, why this matters, and the importance of listening to children to understand their experiences of poverty.

Reducing poverty and improving wellbeing for all children: Where do we stand?

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This is the first post in a 3-part series) by Sharon Bessell and Cadhla O’Sullivan from the Children’s Policy Centre at ANU. Today they identify some trends from their analysis of poverty and wellbeing.